Hi!
> > textual
>
> good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs
> that have to open a bunch of files by name.
>
> > sysfs was great for develping tp_smapi
>
> 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?
>
> If X were a shell script, I'd say a file per value would
> clearly be the way to go, but it isn't.
Well, lets say "if we go the /dev/XXX way, maintainer will probably
have to create small utility to make battery info available from the
shell".
Pavel
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