Re: Detecting that a battery is inside a dock?

Bastien Nocera
2015-05-06T14:20:20Z

On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 17:08 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have access to a convertible Toshiba machine where the 2nd battery
> is in detachable keyboard. This is the decompiled DSDT:
> https://hadess.fedorapeople.org/toshiba.dsl
>
> There's no BAT0, BAT1 is in the screen, and BAT2 is in the keyboard.
>
> BAT2 can be ejected (it has an _EJD method), but the dock code
> doesn't
> see it as having a battery:
> $ pwd
> /sys/devices/platform/dock.0
> $ cat flags
> 16
> $ cat type
> dock_station
>
> Any ideas what might be missing here?
>
> I'd eventually like to be able to say that, if I can detect that the
> battery is inside the dock, to mark it as such in the UI[1] (even
> better would be to say it's "in the keyboard" but I'm not sure we
> can
> easily detect that).

Anyone?

> [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748592