linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] battery: Add the ThinkPad "Not Charging" quirk

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Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 00:55:34 +0100
From:   Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph@...hmwalder.at>
To:     Ognjen Galic <smclt30p@...il.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, devel@...ica.org,
        Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] battery: Add the ThinkPad "Not Charging" quirk

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:53:01PM +0100, Ognjen Galic wrote:
> The EC/ACPI firmware on Lenovo ThinkPads used to report a status
> of "Unknown" when the battery is between the charge start and
> charge stop thresholds. On Windows, it reports "Not Charging"
> so the quirk has been added to also report correctly.
>
> Now the "status" attribute returns "Not Charging" when the
> battery on ThinkPads is not physicaly charging.

Hi again,

I just tried this patch(set) and it still seems to report "Unknown".  We
can also discuss this on the IRC you mentioned earlier if you want, as I
said I'm open for testing.

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Regards,
Christoph