In the last episode (Jul 14), Joerg Sonnenberger said:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:49:07PM +1200, Atom Smasher wrote:
> > the same info is available on linux via /sys and /proc and on comparable
> > hardware, i can get the info about 100x faster.
>
> Are you sure that Linux is not just caching the data? I know of at least
> one system where it takes more than 100ms to query the battery state due
> to extremely slow hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if you can do worse.
I have an old Dell laptop where it takes almost a full second to fetch
battery data via ACPI.
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Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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