I can follow yamt here. I am thinking of servers with
multiple power supplies and UPS. With the general abstraction
of several power sources with varying capacity we can handle
power supply redundancy, ups and batteries with a single concept.
Its all then just reduced to a set of power source sensors.

Frank

Jachym Holecek wrote:
> # YAMAMOTO Takashi 2007-10-11:
> 
>>can't these be done more generally?
> 
> 
> Why? It's not supposed to perform general task, it's supposed to detect
> when all batteries are off and there's no AC -- I don't see the benefit
> of abstracting a perfectly concrete situation...
> 
> 	-- Jachym