On Wed 2017-10-18 17:52:22, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > > Am 18.10.2017 um 15:56 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>: > > > > On Wed 2017-10-18 06:22:04, Tony Lindgren wrote: > >> * H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [171018 05:49]: > >>>> Am 18.10.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>: > >>>> > >>>> 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... > > Well, please implement arbitrary symlinks in /sysfs... Any reason why I'd like to do that? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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