Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Ping?

it's still in the queue, I've been looking at other stuff and will queue up some
other stuff to batch-process them :)

Auke


> 
> El 19/06/08 00:01 Felipe Sateler escribió:
>> El 18/06/08 23:55 Kok, Auke escribió:
>>> Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>> I see that powertop 1.10 reads the sysfs interface to acpi. Great.
>>>> However, I think that the reading is currently broken, for the
>>>> following reasons:
>>>>
>>>> 1. It reads /sys/class/power_supply/<device>/energy_now which (at least
>>>> on my debian box) doesn't exist. I think it should read charge_now.
>>>> 2. It reads current_now as watts_drawn, I think it should be
>>>> amperes_drawn
>>>>
>>>> It also appears that the units are not correctly calculated too.
>>> ok. feel free to take a stab at making a patch and post it here. I'll be
>>> offline for a week but certainly will look into this next week when I get
>>> back.
>> OK, I took a shot at fixing this. The problem is that there are several
>> charge sources available from sysfs, depending on the capabilities of the
>> battery. In my case, the battery wasn't providing the energy_now attribute
>> which tells the amount of µWh left, but I have charge_now which has the µAh
>> left. Thus, I changed powertop.c to read both, and use energy_now if
>> available, and use charge_now*voltage otherwise (which should be a
>> reasonable approximation).
>>
>>
>> Saludos,
>> Felipe Sateler
> 
> 
> 
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler

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