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

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:49:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@...il.com>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bq27x00_battery: fix flag register read

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?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com
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