Re: smartbattery support

[Christian Axelsson <smiler-pw/8oln/LLv0Dx+PQ6IoOQ@public.gmane.org>]

Pedro Venda wrote:
> i read some things also, but i disagree with christian. i think that 
> smbus patch is not the way to go. don't get me wrong! i'm also just 
> scratching the surface. for what i read, those patches put smbus bios 
> support into the kernel.

yep

> 1. is this a "sensor" i2c driver? i mean, should we find help with the 
> lmsensors team? there are some debugging tools for i2c developed by the 
> lm-sensors people (i guess). this document 
> (http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/chips/SUMMARY) 
> refers some smartbattery support, but i don't think it solves our problem.

I cant get the detect-thingies to see any i2c-bus and Im not aware of 
any sensorchip in my laptop (but I would be happy to be proven wrong).

> 2. what exactly should the i2c driver do? should it just know the 
> smartbattery address and ask generic questions made by userland 
> programs? or should it do all the work and retrive charge rates and 
> capacity information and such?

I think it should publish as much generic info (info thats avaible on 
all smartbatteries) as possible into sysfs.

-- 
Regards,
Christian


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