On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:45 +0100, jamie wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 02:44 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > While checking why suspend on battery doesn't work for me, I noticed,
> > that the way it currently works, is to poll a fixed set of proc file
> > names:
> >
> > /* battery and ac power checks */
> > const gchar *battery_filenames[4] = {
> > "/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state",
> > "/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state",
> > "/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ADp1/state",
> > "/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state"
> >
> >
> > This approach seems to be broken imho.
> > First, in my case the correct path would be
> > /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/C134/state.
> > I'm also sure there are other paths/ways on different platforms.
> > Second, we have to poll (currently every 2 secs) which defeats all the
> > recent achievements (like tickless kernel).
> >
> > Is there a good reason, not to use hal? This would solve 1 and 2.
>
> I dont know enough about hal to use it - any code examples?
>
> hal writes the output to /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/
>
> so we can just parse that periodically but I will change it do this
> polling only when indexing is active.
>
> Also there will only ever be one ac_adapter present so we can scan for
> it
>
> will fix now
>
fix applied - pls test and confirm it works for you
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