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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.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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  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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