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From: Pedro Venda <pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
To: Christian Axelsson <smiler-pw/8oln/LLv0Dx+PQ6IoOQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: smartbattery support
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:52:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4163DC72.80708@mega.ist.utl.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41631809.7020204-pw/8oln/LLv0Dx+PQ6IoOQ@public.gmane.org>

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Christian Axelsson wrote:
| 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

sorry... do you agree or not? i meant that we should be creating an i2c
module to talk specifically to the smart battery independently of the
bios...

|
|> 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).
|

again i should have explained myself better... my laptop can see 5
busses... although i cannot yet interpret that information well. anyway,
what i wanted to ask was: should we be using some of the sensors code?

|> 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.

agree. then useland programs could use that information. but i see a
pitfall here... if it is so, how will it be hooked into ACPI?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 21:00 smartbattery support Pedro Venda
     [not found] ` <41630B6D.2000107-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-05 21:54   ` Christian Axelsson
     [not found]     ` <41631809.7020204-pw/8oln/LLv0Dx+PQ6IoOQ@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-06 11:52       ` Pedro Venda [this message]
2004-10-07  9:41   ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]     ` <20041007094109.GA534-u08AdweFZfgxtPtxi4kahqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-07 12:33       ` Pedro Venda
2004-10-07 13:43 Li, Shaohua
     [not found] ` <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD30575456AB2-4yWAQGcml66iAffOGbnezLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-08  8:29   ` Bruno Ducrot
     [not found]     ` <20041008082923.GD6785-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-08 19:29       ` Pedro Venda
2004-10-08  8:39 Li, Shaohua
     [not found] ` <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD30575457124-4yWAQGcml66iAffOGbnezLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-08  9:16   ` Bruno Ducrot
     [not found]     ` <20041008091658.GE6785-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-08 19:37       ` Pedro Venda
2004-10-08 19:36   ` Pedro Venda
     [not found]     ` <4166EC29.8070006-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-11  9:49       ` Bruno Ducrot
     [not found]         ` <20041011094935.GA23992-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-11 18:36           ` Pedro Venda
     [not found]             ` <416AD2B3.9050403-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-11 21:25               ` Pedro Venda
2004-10-12 16:58               ` Bruno Ducrot
2004-10-12  1:03 Li, Shaohua
     [not found] ` <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD305754B4711-4yWAQGcml66iAffOGbnezLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-12  9:46   ` Pedro Venda

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