On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:58:06AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:05:35AM -0400, Brown, Len wrote: > > > Wonderful, but isn't the key here how simple it is for HAL > > or X to understand and use the kernel API rather than the > > developers of the kernel driver that implements the API? > > HAL currently gets most of its information from sysfs, and managed to > deal with parsing the existing /proc/acpi/battery stuff. I don't think > there's any real difficulty there. Yes, HAL does a lot of ugly work to be able to gather the information it needs.
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