CWFG(4)

πŸ“¦ in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… CWFG(4) β€” like, the CellWise CW201x fuel gauge, bestie ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual (that's the manual name, iykyk 🫢) and it's about the cwfg driver. buckle up, it's short but it eats.


🌸 NAME 🌸

cwfg β€” the CellWise CW201x fuel gauge driver πŸ“


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cwfg* at iic?

that's literally it. iconic minimalism. the * and the ? are doing their little wildcard thing, we love to see it πŸ’«


πŸŽ€ DESCRIPTION πŸŽ€

okay so the cwfg driver? it provides support for the CellWise CW201x fuel gauge. no cap.

what it does, in group-chat terms:

  • it reads the current battery voltage ⚑
  • it reads the capacity πŸ”‹
  • it reads the remaining minutes ⏳

and then it hands all that info to you, the user, via the sensors framework. it's giving "your battery but make it readable." main character energy fr fr πŸ‘‘


πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

  • iic(4) β€” the friend it links up with, go read that one too bestie 🫢

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

the cwfg driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.8. a little debut moment, honestly πŸ’…βœ¨


πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS πŸ‘‘

  • the cwfg driver was written by Jared McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca> for NetBSD, and then ported to OpenBSD by Patrick Wildt <patrick@blueri.se> πŸŽ€

collab of the century, ngl. two icons, one driver. periodt. πŸ’œ


πŸ’€ friendly reminder: keep the option names, paths, and addresses exactly as written above β€” copy-paste is your bestie, not your enemy πŸ™ˆ

and that's the whole page! mwah πŸ’‹ this one came from the Debian edition of the manual, dated June 10, 2020 β€” so like, a little vintage, but still slaying πŸŒΈπŸ¦‹ ty for reading, bestie, go check your battery πŸ”‹πŸ’–

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from
  • nixpkgs unstable: cvs-export
  • πŸ’– girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms