From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: "Jérémy Compostella" <jeremy.compostella@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:30:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87liq5rad1.fsf@kwarm.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+TATJH98Nvrf7m8qhznbff39NGC2Yk5Dr300w4LVNCi3pmC3g@mail.gmail.com> ("Jérémy Compostella"'s message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:03:47 +0100")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-18 18:53 [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-21 10:03 ` Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-21 19:30 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2011-12-22 0:08 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2011-12-22 10:18 ` Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-22 11:30 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-22 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-23 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-23 4:38 ` Karl Fogel
2011-12-23 7:10 ` Bastien
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