On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:35:32AM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I like option 2 better, since it means that a userspace tool (like > GNOME) could learn how to operate a battery charge controller once and > then other laptops and devices could reuse the same interface. The > problem is that the ACPI battery driver can't see the charge control. > So either it would need a hook to allow per-vendor control like this > or the power_supply class would need to recognize separate charge > controllers. I agree that this is preferable. One option would be to just use smapi and provide a hook to detach the ACPI driver, but that would potentially mean a certain amount of code duplication. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
