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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.
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    On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:34 +0200, Shem Multinymous wrote:
    > * Thou shalt not export any attributes in sysfs except these, and
    > with these units: */
    >
    > Drivers *will* want to violate this. For example, the "inhibit
    > charging for N minutes" command on ThinkPads seems too arcane to be
    > worthy of generalization. I would add a more sensible boolean
    > "charging_inhibit" attribute to battery.h, and let the ThinkPad driver
    > implement it as well as it can. The driver will then expose a
    > non-stadard "charging_inhibit_minutes" attribute to reveal the finer
    > level of access to those who care.

    If it makes enough sense that it's worth exporting it to userspace at
    all, then it can go into battery.h.

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    dwmw2

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