Hi! > > textual > > good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs > that have to open a bunch of files by name. > > > sysfs was great for develping tp_smapi > > 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? > > If X were a shell script, I'd say a file per value would > clearly be the way to go, but it isn't. Well, lets say "if we go the /dev/XXX way, maintainer will probably have to create small utility to make battery info available from the shell". Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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
