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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Kamil Iskra <kamil@iskra.name>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
	ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Patch to correct battery capacity values on Thinkpads (repost)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:04:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121114160443.GA9108@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121114095857.29582.qmail@stuge.se>

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58:57AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Matthew Garrett 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.
> 
> current energy percent = 100 * energy_now / energy_full_design

Right. That's not the voltage.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-14 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-12  5:09 Patch to correct battery capacity values on Thinkpads (repost) Kamil Iskra
2012-11-12 20:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-11-16 21:46   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-14  7:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-14  9:58   ` Peter Stuge
2012-11-14 16:04     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-11-14 16:54   ` Kamil Iskra

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