Detecting exploding batteries, part 2

[Soren Hansen]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:15:54PM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > Actually, it might be a good idea to have HAL look at S.M.A.R.T
> > values and make and set a "device_failure_imminent" might make good
> > sense.

First off: I'm glad you managed to make sense of that sentence. I must
have been on crack when writing it.
 
> And es next we implement postfix in HAL ... or the kernel ;-)

I don't understand why you're so much against having this stuff in HAL.
It IS a hardware abstraction issue. HAL is supposed to provide an
abstraction layer between the hardware itself and anything that wants to
know general stuff about hardware.

Right now, the only technology I know of that provides this kind of
information is S.M.A.R.T, but others might show up or perhaps already be
present on other platforms. I don't know. I'd say it'd be a major
advantage if applications could just check one place for this kind of
information, and we (hal) could aggregate the information the different
sources of information.

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