linux-kernel - Re: /sys/class/power_supply/bq27200-0/capacity changed meaning between 4.1 and 4.4?

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Message-ID: <20160113110138.GA27129@amd>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:01:38 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
Cc:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	"Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, tony@...mide.com, khilman@...nel.org,
	aaro.koskinen@....fi, ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com,
	patrikbachan@...il.com, serge@...lyn.com, a.hajda@...sung.com
Subject: Re: /sys/class/power_supply/bq27200-0/capacity changed meaning
 between 4.1 and 4.4?

On Wed 2016-01-13 11:26:13, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 09:44:24AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 January 2016 22:53:52 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > > >>If not, tell me, and I can do it, but it will involve a lot of swaring...
> > > > >
> > > > >I'll give it a look over.
> > > > 
> > > > OK, I'm still looking for a test setup, but this was definitely a problem,
> > > > could you give this a try?:
> > > 
> > > Well, search no more. I tested it and seems to work ok. There's one
> > > more blank line in the source, so I had to apply patch by hand.
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > > Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > > 
> > > ? :-).
> > > 
> > > And... thanks!
> > > 									Pavel
> > 
> > There are more pending fixes for bq27xxx... Maybe your is duplicate?
> 
> No, it's not a duplicate.
> 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/70090
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/69716/focus=69714
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/69716/focus=2110580
> > 
> > Sebastian, please take them and ideally send to stable@ for backporting.
> 
> There is no need to send them to stable@, if they are properly
> tagged with a 'Fixes: <sha1> ("title")' tag, so please always
> include it in your commit messages, if possible :)

Heh, sorry about that, but I don't know what it fixed. I guess git
blame would tell us. 

Anyway,
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/69716/focus=2110580
fixed an regression in 4.4 kernel, and did not get to 4.4, which is
rather sad :-(.

									Pavel
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