On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:38:13 +0300, Shem Multinymous said: > > Another example: on my ThinkPad, the readouts provided by the EC > change only every 2 seconds, regardless of how much you poll it. > > Hence my proposal for a polling-based interface with kernel-side > caching. This way, the hardware query rate is the minimum of two > rates: what the application can use and what the kernel thinks is the > hardware's change rate.
Is there a reliable (or hack-worthy) way for the kernel to determine how often the values are re-posted by the hardware?
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