acpi battery rework patch

[Nate Lawson]

Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Nate,
>>
>>
>>>>- Battery:
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.life: 87
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.time: 103
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.state: 1
>>>
>>>Completely fine.  Time should be -1 (unknown) while on AC power.  And 
>>>state is "discharging" when on battery.
>>>
>>>
>>>>- AC:
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.life: 70
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.time: -1
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.state: 2
>>>
>>>This is fine.  On AC power and state is charging.
>>>
>>>
>>>>- Battery:
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.life: 70
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.time: 125
>>>>hw.acpi.battery.state: 1
>>>
>>>Time is valid and state is "discharging".
>>
>>Where are these states documented ?  What do you think of the idea of
>>using the following as a description for the hw.acpi.battery.state
>>sysctl ?
>>    "0: battery full, 1: discharging, 2: charging"
>>
> 
> 
> Along the same lines, I notice the following:
> 
> <root at uninfectable> [~/mp3] #sysctl -d hw.acpi.battery
> hw.acpi.battery:
> hw.acpi.battery.life:
> hw.acpi.battery.time:
> hw.acpi.battery.state:
> hw.acpi.battery.units:
> hw.acpi.battery.info_expire:
> 
> Any chance of descriptions being added to all?  
> 

Yes, I have a patch for this and will try to roll it into a group of 
them later today.

-- 
Nate