Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:22:04 -0700 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling |
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* H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> [171018 05:49]: > > Am 18.10.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>: > > > > 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.
Regards,
Tony
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