Re: PowerTop discourages beagle

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

> > Beagled is perfectly idle in this setup. Err... near-perfectly idle. Beagle
> > uses a thread which wakes up every 30 sec to check battery status
> > (reading /proc/ac_adapter/... and stuff). That's the only one working and
> > diligently waking up at about 30 secs. Rest of the time, beagled is waiting
> > on a poll().
>
> can't beagle use hal for this? it will get a notice via dbus about
> battery status change and won't have to poll for it.

It can. Nobody has sent a patch yet (hint hint). Doing some <.1 sec
work every 30 sec
isn't that bad, so instead of a cooked up a hack, a completely managed
(c#) solution would be wonderful. With the managed dbus bindings
looking better these days, someday this will happen.

- dBera

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