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Message-Id: <1162046193.19446.521.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:36:33 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com> Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>, Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...top.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, len.brown@...el.com, greg@...ah.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org, David Zeuthen <davidz@...hat.com>, linux-thinkpad mailing list <linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver. On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:34 +0200, Shem Multinymous wrote: > * Thou shalt not export any attributes in sysfs except these, and > with these units: */ > > Drivers *will* want to violate this. For example, the "inhibit > charging for N minutes" command on ThinkPads seems too arcane to be > worthy of generalization. I would add a more sensible boolean > "charging_inhibit" attribute to battery.h, and let the ThinkPad driver > implement it as well as it can. The driver will then expose a > non-stadard "charging_inhibit_minutes" attribute to reveal the finer > level of access to those who care. If it makes enough sense that it's worth exporting it to userspace at all, then it can go into battery.h. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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