Re: [PATCH V3] ACPI: Add _DEP(Operation Region Dependencies) support to fix battery issue on the Asus T100TA

[Adam Williamson <awilliam-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 10:39 +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> On 2014/11/23 21:22, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> > ACPI 5.0 introduces _DEP to designate device objects that OSPM should
> > assign a higher priority in start ordering due to future operation region
> > accesses.
> > 
> > On Asus T100TA, ACPI battery info are read from a I2C slave device via
> > I2C operation region. Before I2C operation region handler is installed,
> > battery _STA always returns 0. There is a _DEP method of designating
> > start order under battery device node.
> > 
> > This patch is to implement _DEP feature to fix battery issue on the Asus T100TA.
> > Introducing acpi_dep_list and adding dep_unmet count in the struct
> > acpi_device. During ACPI namespace scan, create struct acpi_dep_data for a
> > valid pair of master (device pointed to by _DEP)/slave(device with _DEP), record
> > master's and slave's ACPI handle in it and put it into acpi_dep_list. The dep_unmet
> > count will increase by one if there is a device under its _DEP. Driver's probe() should
> > return EPROBE_DEFER when find dep_unmet is larger than 0. When I2C operation
> > region handler is installed, remove all struct acpi_dep_data on the acpi_dep_list
> > whose master is pointed to I2C host controller and decrease slave's dep_unmet.
> > When dep_unmet decreases to 0, all _DEP conditions are met and then do acpi_bus_attach()
> > for the device in order to resolve battery _STA issue on the Asus T100TA.
> 
> Well, Can we explicitly tied this up with ASUS T100TA in the code?
> If I understand correctly, the assumption in the patch is that the
> battery device only depends on I2C device, which is true on ASUS T100TA,
> but may not on the other platforms.
> 
> This patch does not work on a box I have, on it _DEP contains I2C and GPIO.
> 
> Device (BATC)
>         {
>             Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0C0A"))  // _HID: Hardware ID
> --------snip--------
>             Name (_DEP, Package (0x03)  // _DEP: Dependencies
>             {
>                 I2C1,
>                 GPO2,
>                 GPO0
>             })
> 
> Thanks,
> -Aubrey

It certainly works for more than *just* the T100 - fedlet users have
reported working battery status on at least the Miix 2 and Venue 8 Pro
(I can personally confirm it works on the Venue 8 Pro). However, Bastien
Nocera reported failure on an Onda v975w with a slightly earlier version
of the patch in the bug report -
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69011#c58 , "Tested with the
same patch on a Onda v975w, and it tries very hard to detect the battery
but fails."
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