From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ACPI / Battery: Change 16-bit signed negative battery current into correct value Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:11:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20110629151147.GC18023@kroah.com> References: <1309335765-26475-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1309335765-26475-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: Lan Tianyu Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com, stable@kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 04:22:45PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote: > This patch is for some machine which report the battery current > as a 16-bit signed negative when it is charging. This is caused > by DSDT bug. The commit bc76f90b8a5cf4aceedf210d08d5e8292f820cec > has resolved the problem for Acer laptops. But some other machines > also have such problem. > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33722 > > Since it is improssible that the current is above 32A on laptops > whether on AC or on battery, this patch is to check the current and > take its absolute value as current and producing a message when it > is negative in s16. > > Remove Acer quirk, as this workaround handles Acer too. > > Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu > --- This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. Same goes for the other patches in this series that you sent to stable@kernel.org as well, please redo them. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable