hal and battery status

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 18:56 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 10:21 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > Is hal going to eventually have powermanagement devices? (batteries,
> > etc)
> > 
> 
> Hi, yes, eventually there will be devices in HAL for battery bays, power
> buttons, lid buttons etc. - we'll have to come up with a generic enough
> way of describing these though as not everything uses ACPI. From looking
> at my x86 laptop this looks easy to do.
> 
> Further I think it will be sense to export a generic method 'Suspend' on
> each device to power it down (and we'll have a device capability
> is_suspendable) - but this also requires careful considerations.

Well, just this last week I disected the acpid and acpi kernel code.
So, while I have it fresh in my mind, how can I help?

Nathaniel


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