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2008-02-02power_supply: add few more values and propsDmitry Baryshkov
Add LiMn (one of the most common for small non-rechargable batteries) battery technology and voltage_min/_max properties support. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
2008-02-02power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVELAndres Salomon
The CAPACITY_LEVEL stuff defines various levels of charge; however, what is the difference between them? What differentiates between HIGH and NORMAL, LOW and CRITICAL, etc? As it appears that these are fairly arbitrary, we end up making such policy decisions in the kernel (or in hardware). This is the sort of decision that should be made in userspace, not in the kernel. If the hardware does not support _CAPACITY and it cannot be easily calculated, then perhaps the driver should register a custom CAPACITY_LEVEL attribute; however, userspace should not become accustomed to looking for such a thing, and we should certainly not encourage drivers to provide CAPACITY_LEVEL stubs. The following removes support for POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVEL. The OLPC battery driver is the only driver making use of this, so it's removed from there as well. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-07-10[BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)Anton Vorontsov
This class is result of "external power" and "battery" classes merge, as suggested by David Woodhouse. He also implemented uevent support. Here how userspace seeing it now: # ls /sys/class/power\ supply/ ac main-battery usb # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/type AC # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/type USB # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/type Battery # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/online 1 # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/online 0 # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/status Charging # cat /sys/class/leds/h5400\:red-left/trigger none h5400-radio timer hwtimer ac-online usb-online main-battery-charging-or-full [main-battery-charging] main-battery-full Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>