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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:12:09 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>
Cc:        acpi@freebsd.org, Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: acpi battery rework patch
Message-ID:  <42E68B08.2030701@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <d9175cad050726103274530a8@mail.gmail.com>
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Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@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@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



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