From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756256Ab0EJJwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2010 05:52:17 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:42354 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756203Ab0EJJwN (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2010 05:52:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:52:11 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Daniel Mack Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Vorontsov , Matt Reimer , Evgeniy Polyakov , Tejun Heo , David Woodhouse , Andres Salomon , Alexey Starikovskiy , Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] power/ds2760_battery: make charge_now and charge_full_design writeable Message-ID: <20100510095211.GC31804@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <1273254733-7010-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> <1273254733-7010-2-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1273254733-7010-2-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> X-Cookie: There's no time like the pleasant. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.