From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 6 19:10:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450BF16A5F6 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:10:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net (mailgate1b.savvis.net [216.91.182.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B826452DC for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:59:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EED53BE83; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:59:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate1b.savvis.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06684-02-19; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:59:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.254.186.111] (sntc04ep01.savvis.net [64.14.1.106]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42783BE7E; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:59:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44354908.9030505@savvis.net> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:59:52 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <43F34314.7030606@centtech.com> <43F3688B.8060700@savvis.net> <43F4B7AA.5030000@centtech.com> <43F5229C.8050106@savvis.net> <43F5D186.7060302@centtech.com> <43F60A7B.2090206@savvis.net> <43F62314.1070101@centtech.com> <43F645BB.4070008@savvis.net> <4434980E.8050202@centtech.com> <1144309790.220711.1109.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org> <44351C26.1060509@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <44351C26.1060509@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at savvis.net Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mouse battery status? X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:10:30 -0000 Eric, >>> What about a simple tiny kernel module that can maintain these and other >>> tweaks related to bluetooth? Like a btmon.ko? >> >> This seems overly complex. Can you not just add an entry in your >> syslog.conf to filter messages from bthidd? I have not tried this, but >> syslog.conf(5) on appears to show that it is possible, eg: >> >> !bthidd >> *.* |/usr/bin/batmon >> >> though I'm not so sure what the 'batmon' program would do - it can >> extract >> the battery reports at least, but can't really do anything with them. >> Probably better to just feed bthidd output to a logfile and get a user >> program to parse it. You could add a commandline option to bthidd to make >> it do special logging of the battery information, eg add >> >> if (battery_log) >> syslog(LOG_LOCAL7, "%s %d", bt_ntoa(&s->bdaddr, NULL), val); >> >> to the battery report section which might make parsing easier, and use >> something like >> >> !bthidd >> user.local7 /var/log/bthidd.batlog >> >> so you dont have to worry about all the other stuff. Then, your user >> program will just have to open battery.log and sit in a read() loop to >> get > > I suppose logging it, and having a monitoring daemon read the log is ok, > but for tools that want to just probe every X minutes and report the > level, it isn't as slick. well, you could use kqueue(2) and get notification when log file is changed. this way you do not have to poll the file. > The idea of a module would be more generic, so it could monitor all > kinds of bluetooth related things, and allow a simple control interface > to flip knobs if needed, very much like ACPI battery status is. I was > thinking of a sysctl tree like: > > bluetooth.mouse.battery_level > bluetooth.keyboard.battery_level > etc.. perhaps i'm missing something here, but wouldn't the sysctl's have to be polled as well? thanks, max