linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

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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

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