linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] power: surface3_power: MSHW0011 rev-eng implementation

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Message-ID: <20160815215850.3g7mvrquvooojr7x@earth>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 23:58:50 +0200
From:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
To:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stephen Just <stephenjust@...il.com>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...ica.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] power: surface3_power: MSHW0011 rev-eng
 implementation

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 05:49:26PM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> MSHW0011 replaces the battery firmware by using ACPI operation regions.
> The values have been obtained by reverse engineering, and are subject to
> errors. Looks like it works on overall pretty well.
> 
> I couldn't manage to get the IRQ correctly triggered, so I am using a
> good old polling thread to check for changes.

With CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY being in drivers/acpi/ and this not
using the power-supply subsystem's framework at all, I wonder
if this driver should also go to drivers/acpi/.

-- Sebastian

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