All again,

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 ...

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
>
>
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