Re: [PATCH] battery.el, upower fixes

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> I think there's a possibility that the set of devices changes over time
>> (e.g. on my machine (battery-upower-device-list) currently only shows
>> battery_BAT0, but I can insert a second battery and I'd expect the list
>> to then include a battery_BAT1 as well).  So maybe we should instead
>> allow a special value (e.g. nil) to mean "autodetect" and then do the
>> autodetection dynamically.  WDYT?
>
> Usually, D-Bus services send a signal when a device is added/removed. IIUC
> https://upower.freedesktop.org/docs/UPower.html,
> org.freedesktop.UPower.DeviceAdded and org.freedesktop.UPower.DeviceRemoved
> serve for that purpose. So you shall subscribe to those signals and
> handle them accordingly.

Now done in https://debbugs.gnu.org/39491#55.

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Basil