linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] power/ds2760_battery: make charge_now and charge_full

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Message-ID: <20100510095211.GC31804@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 10:52:11 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>,
	Matt Reimer <mreimer@...p.net>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...labora.co.uk>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] power/ds2760_battery: make charge_now and
 charge_full_design writeable

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:52:12PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> For userspace tools and daemons, it might be necessary to adjust
> the charge_now and charge_full_design properties of the ds2760 battery
> monitor, for example for unavoidable corrections due to aging batteries.

Changing charge_full_design seems really odd - I'd really expect that to
be something which is constant throughout the lifetime of the system.  A
separate property showing the degraded capacity would be a bit less
surprising.
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