From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support for multiple batteries
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:40:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jkSrt-0006OW-31@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874krfnq47.fsf@tcd.ie> (contovob@tcd.ie)
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> This can be perceived as a regression
> on multi-battery systems because battery-upower currently assumes a
> single battery, whereas the previous defaults of battery-status-function
> on modern GNU/Linux systems (battery-linux-sysfs and
> battery-linux-proc-acpi) support multiple batteries. The patch in [5]
> adds support for multiple batteries to battery-upower as well, so that
> it can remain the default backend when applicable.
It sounds like that could make it work again for me. Would you
please tell me when it is installed, so I can try it?
> For example, they sum the current energy and energy-when-full of each
> battery, and divide the former by the latter to get the combined load
> percentage.
That sounds like the right thing for them to do.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-14 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-27 3:38 Support for multiple batteries Richard Stallman
2020-02-28 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-28 10:21 ` lg.zevlg
2020-02-28 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-01 3:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-03 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-06-11 16:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-13 4:02 ` Richard Stallman
2020-06-13 11:48 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-14 13:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-06-18 15:59 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-13 19:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-14 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
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