From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Patch to correct battery capacity values on Thinkpads (repost) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:41:13 +0000 Message-ID: <20121114074113.GA32091@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20121112050935.GA25110@scooby.iskra.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:57918 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756315Ab2KNHlT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:41:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121112050935.GA25110@scooby.iskra.name> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Kamil Iskra Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:09:35PM -0600, Kamil Iskra wrote: > My guess is that this problem has been around ever since those machines > have been released, but because the most common Thinkpad batteries are > rated at 10.8V, the error (8%) is small enough that it simply hasn't been > noticed or at least nobody could be bothered to look into it. Yeah, the DSDT simply multiples the values by 10 when it's in this state. But the issue is purely cosmetic, right? I can't see any reason anything would be using the design voltage in calculations. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org