linux-kernel - Re: Generic battery interface

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:21:12 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc:	Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, vojtech@...e.cz,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic battery interface

Hi!

> > textual
> 
> good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs
> that have to open a bunch of files by name.
> 
> > sysfs was great for develping tp_smapi
> 
> Wonderful, but isn't the key here how simple it is for HAL
> or X to understand and use the kernel API rather than the
> developers of the kernel driver that implements the API?
> 
> If X were a shell script, I'd say a file per value would
> clearly be the way to go, but it isn't.

Well, lets say "if we go the /dev/XXX way, maintainer will probably
have to create small utility to make battery info available from the
shell".
									Pavel
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