[Trac #224] Want IRQ on power/battery status change.

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Mon Oct 23 15:32:39 EDT 2006


>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:26:48 -0400, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> said:

   >> Polling is bad. We have to wake the CPU for it. We should get an
   >> interrupt when AC power is removed or applied, when status bits
   >> change in the battery status, etc. Perhaps even when the
   >> percentage charge changes.

   > Sounds like a job for Dbus?

The ultimate presentation of the data may well be, but Dave is asking
for the changes to the embedded controller that allow us to have that
data (without polling) in the first place -- dbus is good, but it's 
not *that* good.  :)

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>




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