linux-kernel - Re: [ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:18:12 +0300
From:	"Shem Multinymous" <multinymous@...il.com>
To:	linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

On 7/31/06, Michael Olbrich <michael.olbrich@....net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:37:23PM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Hmmm, that looks good for most cases. But how would you handle
> starting/stoping laoding/draining the battery?
> That usually results in values jumping from/to 0. A gui would want to
> show such a change immediately while otherwise keeping a slow update
> rate. Maybe some kind of threshhold parameter? "send an input-ready
> immediatelly if the value changes by more than x%".

Changes by more than x% compared to what?

The value at the time of the ioctl()? This might completely miss a
change that happened between the previous read() and the ioctl().

The value at the time of the last read()? Then the kernel
driver+infrastructure will need to keep track of the latest readout
done by each app. That's pretty heavy.

So what semantics make sense?

  Shem
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