[patch] addon-hid-ups.c : battery.present is mandatory for HAL spec

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 20:14 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Propose to make a generic function in hald/util.c and use it for both
> > APM, PMU and ACPI.
> 
> No can do, for two reasons (unless I'm wrong:-):
> 
> * APM / PMU / UPS already provide hardware-generated remaining_time
> values

I think that would be driver-generated values.

> * APM / PMU do not provide charge/discharge rate values

PMU does.

Anyway, it's good practice to solve the problem in a generic way even
though only ACPI is using it.

David


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