From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc: Sannu K <sannumail4foss@gmail.com>,
jic23@cam.ac.uk, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC]power: battery: Generic battery driver using IIO
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:35:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346771122.6243.6.camel@anish-Inspiron-N5050> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120902213450.GA15196@lizard>
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 14:34 -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:44:04PM +0530, Sannu K wrote: [...]
> > Just Curious what is the use of this module? Is there any user space
> > program uses this? When ACPI drivers for battery is available how
> > useful will this be?
>
> That's mostly for embedded devices. They often have batteries directly
> connected to ADC (analog to digital converters) channels, so that's the
> only way to read e.g. voltage.
>
> As for userspace, since it's battery class driver, pretty much every
> userspace stack can use it.
Can I get some review comments on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Anton.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-04 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-02 15:39 anish kumar
2012-09-02 16:14 ` Sannu K
2012-09-02 21:34 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-09-04 15:05 ` anish kumar [this message]
2012-09-07 7:52 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-08 7:10 ` anish kumar
2012-09-08 8:34 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-09-08 10:09 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-09 9:32 ` anish kumar
2012-09-09 9:46 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-09 9:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-07 8:49 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-08 7:30 ` anish kumar
2012-09-08 10:10 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-10 15:40 anish kumar
2012-09-11 9:59 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-12 8:30 ` anish singh
2012-09-13 12:26 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-13 12:33 ` anish singh
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