On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:58:06AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:05:35AM -0400, Brown, Len wrote: > > > Wonderful, but isn't the key here how simple it is for HAL > > or X to understand and use the kernel API rather than the > > developers of the kernel driver that implements the API? > > HAL currently gets most of its information from sysfs, and managed to > deal with parsing the existing /proc/acpi/battery stuff. I don't think > there's any real difficulty there. Yes, HAL does a lot of ugly work to be able to gather the information it needs. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
