Re: [RFC] Controlling the ThinkPad battery charger

[Matthew Garrett]

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.

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