linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bq27x00_battery: fix flag register read

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Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:36:39 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bq27x00_battery: fix flag register read

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:49:03AM -0800, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2012 22:50:49 Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
> > When reading flags, bq27x00_read() argument is inverted and causes
> > reads 2 of bytes for bq27200 and 1 byte for bq27500, while their register
> > sizes are 1 and 2 bytes respectively. This causes bq27500 upper flag
> > bits always to be returned as 0, causing full charge state to never be
> > reported correctly, so fix it.
> > 
> > Cc: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c
> > b/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c index 98bf567..86decb4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c
> > +++ b/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c
> > @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static void bq27x00_update(struct bq27x00_device_info
> > *di) struct bq27x00_reg_cache cache = {0, };
> >  	bool is_bq27500 = di->chip == BQ27500;
> > 
> > -	cache.flags = bq27x00_read(di, BQ27x00_REG_FLAGS, is_bq27500);
> > +	cache.flags = bq27x00_read(di, BQ27x00_REG_FLAGS, !is_bq27500);
> >  	if (cache.flags >= 0) {
> >  		if (!is_bq27500 && (cache.flags & BQ27000_FLAG_CI)) {
> >  			dev_info(di->dev, "battery is not calibrated! ignoring capacity
> > values\n");
> 
> Yes, you are right, this patch fixing flags register reading.
> Anton Vorontsov, can you send this patch to linux 3.3?

Applied to battery-urgent.git, thanks guys!

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Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@...il.com
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