Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver

[Pedro Venda <pjvenda-pQd4kjVL+REh2FBCd0jGRA@public.gmane.org>]

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Rich Townsend wrote:
| Johan Vromans wrote:
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|> Johannes Kuhlmann <jkuhlmann-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
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|>
|>> I had to put
|>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_ec_write); and EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_ec_read); after
|>> the functions in drivers/acpi/ec.c.

Any chance of permanently fixing the ACPI ec driver with this patch? I'm sure
it'll continue to be needed and such change would spare us from patching every
kernel every day... just a thought... After all, all it does is exporting some
symbols... care to comment?

|
| Yeah, I'd completely forgotten about the patch, until I went back and
| checked the instructions in Bruno's smartbatt package. D'oh!
|
| I've modified the README file accordingly, and placed a copy of the
| patch in my acpi-sbs package. This is on top of a number of changes &
| additions to the code, which include:

hi rich,

I haven't been very busy, so no time to comment or test your driver.

| *) Fixed scaling bug when capacity is reported in mWh
| *) Added a new module parameter, capacity_info, to alter whether
| capacities are reported in mAh (charge) or mWh (power)
| *) Fixed a number of bugs in the formatting of info/state output
| *) Added support for Smart Battery System Manager (SBSM), Smart Battery
| Selector (SBSEL) and Smart Battery Charge (SBC) subsystems. With the
| code for these in place, the module correctly (I think) enumerates how
| many batteries the system can support, which ones are present, etc.

nice! :-)

| *) Added a new legacy interface for the AC adapter, in
| /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state (where * is typically SBS0).

that'd be nice.

| *) Put in semaphores, so the code *might* now be SMP safe. Of course,
| this may be a purely academic excercise; I've never met the lucky ****
| who has an SMP laptop :)

true. me neither.

|
| The latest copy of the code can be obtained from:
|
| http://shayol.bartol.udel.edu/~rhdt/download/acpi_sbs-20050116.tar.gz

got it. any newer code?

| To move forward from here, I'd appreciate some advice from others on
| this list. In particular
|
| *) I'd like some feedback on the directory structure I've chosen. At the
| moment, the root directory of the Smart Battery System is 'sbs', but
| would something more verbose like 'smart_battery_system' be appropriate?
| Also, should various subdirectories, representing subsystems, have more
| descriptive names -- e.g., 'battery_A' instead of 'SB0' (the SBS spec.
| refers to the batteries as 'A', 'B' etc), 'selector' instead of 'SBSL',
| and so on?

my honest not privileged and not acpi/kernel experienced oppinion is:
/proc/acpi/sbs seems sane. also SB?, SBSEL, SBC, etc seems very close to the
ACPI standard, which justifies those names.

| *) I'd appreciate feedback from people with systems *other* than Acer
| TravelMater 4x00 laptops, to help check parts of the code that are not
| accessed on these machines (e.g., the Smart Battery System Manager code;
| my TM4502 laptop has an older Smart Battery Selector)

I've tried your newer driver. reports are on the bottom of the e-mail.

| *) The code to update the Smart Battery System state from the SMBus is
| terribly slow,

| *) I'm not sure how to go about implmeneting Alarm functionality, not
| only to deal with low-power scenarios, but also to detect asynchronous
| events such as AC on-line/off-line and battery change, without the need
| for polling.

can't help you on any of these questions. lack of knowledge/experience. sorry.

The report:

I've tried to load the module and it still has the mutual-exclusion problem with
the acpi AC and battery drivers. How can that be fixed?

With AC built-in the kernel, the module segfaults on insmod...

After removing the AC driver, it loads fine and reports good results.
Appearently looks nice. Tried with and without battery. Both SBSEL, SBC and SB0
values make sense.

Don't know if it's still relevant, but here's a link for my version of the
smartbattery.c userspace program. just "make" and test it. needs the i2c-dev and
i2c-acpi-ec drivers.

http://arrakis.dhis.org/linux/smartbattery/smartbattery-20050117.tar.gz

regards,
pedro venda.
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Pedro João Lopes Venda
email: pjvenda-pQd4kjVL+REh2FBCd0jGRA@public.gmane.org
http://arrakis.dhis.org
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