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Re: [PATCH] apm-emu displays time till battery is fully charged



Hi all,

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:34:08PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg <debianppc-ml@nn7.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ben & all,
> >
> > I am using this patch since IIRC kernel 2.8. without trouble, and I
> > wonder what is needed to get it included in the kernel ? I posted it on
> > the kernel list, ben said some unconvincing words about it and it did
> > not get included :/
> >
> > As it seems easy to do, if there is something I have to cleanup/think of
> > say so, or please include/push it otherwise.
> >
> > It is nice having the gnome-battery applet display the time until the
> > battery is fully charged - isn't it ?
> 
> Why not use /proc/pmu/ for this? Do the real apm has this facility? Maybe
> it is not implemented, because it couldn't be there.

A once had a look for this in the apm specs and I did not find it. But I
noticed there are some notebooks where /proc/apm shows the approximate
loading time, other models dont provide this. So probably this depends on
the implementation. I think it is a real nice feature to have.

With best regards,

Wolfi
> 
> Jörg.
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