Subject: libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling

From: [email-masked] (Pavel Machek)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:56:56 +0200

On Wed 2017-10-18 06:22:04, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email-masked]> [171018 05:49]:
> > > Am 18.10.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Pavel Machek <[email-masked]>:
> > > 
> > > So I started something, it is at.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/pavelmachek/libbattery
> > > 
> > > My battery on n900 is currently uncalibrated (and charging), still it
> > > gets some kind of estimation:
> > > 
> > > Battery -1 %
> > > Seconds -1
> > > State 1
> > > Voltage 3.88 V
> > > Battery 63 %
> > > 
> > > Of course, there's a lot more work to be done.
> > 
> > Nice start but not a solution to our problem.
> > 
> > Our problem is that people simply expect that for example https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xfce/xfce4-battery-plugin
> > displays the battery percentage.
> 
> I think we could make things compatible with various battery apps by
> having libbattery write back the capacity percentage and time remaining
> to the kernel driver via sysfs or a dev entry. Then the kernel interface
> can just display the data to whatever apps.

Hmm. This could be as simple as providing symlink from
/sys/class/power/userland-battery to some place writable by
userspace...

									Pavel
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