Re: Detecting that a battery is inside a dock?

Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-05-06T22:01:22Z

On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 04:20:17 PM Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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?

Not now, sorry. Too many things are going on in parallel and this one is
not the most urgent of them.

Please file a bug for it at bugzilla.kernel.org in the ACPI category, so it's
not forgotten. Those bugs are looked at on a regular basis, so we'll get to
it at one point.

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.