Re: Generic battery interface

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 01:01:45 +0200

Hi!

frequently it can read from the chip. And no hardware monitoring chip I
know of can tell when the monitored value has changed - you have to read
the chip registers to know.

ACPI battery can tell when values change in significant way. (Like
battery becoming critical).

Pavel
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