Battery technology names

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 11:31 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 18:40 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > You may remember a few weeks ago I asked everyone to email me the
> > technology type of the battery. Well, now I've got a bit of spare
> time,
> > I've attached the following patch which tries to sort out the naming
> > mess.
> 
> I think the spec needs to be more precise here and we should have a
> row
> for each of the "technology names" like e.g. in storage.bus
> 
> 
> http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-spec.html?rev=1.86#device-properties-storage

Sounds like a plan.

> detailing stuff like what "lead-acid" means and maybe mention that if
> we
> read "pb", "pbac" etc. from the hardware it will be assigned to
> "lead-acid". Maybe we also need battery.technology to assume the value
> "unknown" if we can't parse it. 

Maybe another function for the shared helper .c/.h (danny?) files.

> Perhaps what you want should be in battery.technology.family and we
> can
> keep the existing battery.technology as is; e.g. read from the
> hardware / driver mess. I think that's what we want instead.

battery.technology.family seems a bit clumsy given that
battery.technology already exists, but I can go with that if you like.

> For this you also need patches to other code that sets battery stuff
> e.g. APM, PMU (set to "unknown") and the USB CSR and the USB HID UPS
> stuff.

Sure thing guv. :-)

Richard