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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:42:41 -0800
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI CMBAT notify's never reach devd?
Message-ID:  <4B4F5791.5020902@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100114075644.GA18572@gvr.gvr.org>
References:  <20100113204228.GA8768@gvr.gvr.org> <4B4E799E.2030405@root.org> <20100114075644.GA18572@gvr.gvr.org>

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Guido van Rooij wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:55:42PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
>> Most battery systems don't generate the notifies on level changes. So
>> our ACPI battery implementation itself is polled. You should probably
>> just run a cron job that checks the level.
> 
> That can be done of course, but devd seems a better place.

Yes, I just meant for now.

>> Perhaps we could add a low and high mark to the kernel code,
>> configurable by the user. It would be checked by the cmbat polling code
>> and generate an artificial notify to devd if there was a match.
>>
> 
> Can you tell me which function in acpi_cmbat is used for polling,
> as it seems to me thee is no regular polling. There is a define
> CMBAT_POLLRATE but it is never used.

It's been a long time since I looked at the code. I think it does it
synchronously, in the context of a user requesting the value. So we
don't have a periodic polling thread currently.

-- 
Nate




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