Re: [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Jérémy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@gmail.com> writes:
>I did not received any answers so I'm answering myself about :
>- Do I miss something in the "submit" process,
>- Is this patch is a mess ?
>- Or maybe everybody is busy ...

Jérémy, thanks for the patch.  I think it's just #3: everyone is busy.
Sometimes it can take a while.  In some cases, if the feature is not
compelling enough to others, there may be no useful response at all.
This doesn't mean it's a bad idea, it just means no one's convinced it's
needed.

Most people see battery status in an icon on their GUI toolbar, I
think.  Can you describe the use case(s) for battery.el?  Is it easier
for the visually impaired, for example?  Maybe for people who are
running their machine in text-console mode?

When do you use it?

Best,
-Karl

>So let me know,
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeremy
>
>2011/12/18 Jérémy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@gmail.com>
>
>    All,
>    
>    I just bought a new laptop and installed a fresh Debian on it. I
>    used to
>    look at my current battery status using Emacs. I like to look at
>    the
>    current rate too since this laptop will be used during a long trip
>    and I
>    want to take care of the consumption in real time.
>    
>    The issue is that with the 2.6.32 kernel from Debian for this
>    laptop I
>    do not have the /proc/acpi/battery part. However, the sysfs is
>    able to
>    report all the data I need. The current Emacs battery module is
>    not able
>    to retrieve the information I need from sysfs but it does from
>    /proc/acpi/battery. So I made a small evolution to enable the
>    following:
>    
>    - Get the current rate
>    - Get the current temperature (does not work on my laptop but the
>     power_supply interface is able to provide it, so I added it too.
>    - Do the time remaining estimation using the current voltage, the
>     remaining capacity and the current rate. It works on both
>    charging and
>     discharging state.
>    
>    I attached the patch but I warn you that it has been generated
>    using git
>    since I was unable to retrieve the bazar repository for the last
>    two
>    days (it hangs during the download process). By the way, do you
>    have any
>    advice which could help me ?
>    
>    Please merge it or review it.
>    
>    Best regards,
>    
>    
>    Jeremy
>    
>    PS: I signed my Emacs assignment and post it by mail 10 days ago.
>    --
>    Sent from my Emacs