From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: kpowersave stuck at battery charging Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:42:45 +0300 Message-ID: <477B6AA5.5020803@gmail.com> References: <200801021248.55844.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.186]:26306 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754224AbYABKm5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 05:42:57 -0500 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id z23so6062699fkz.5 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:42:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200801021248.55844.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrey Borzenkov Cc: hal@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > This is did not happen before; I am not sure right now what caused this (i.e. > battery aging or some software change) nor whether this is kernel/HAL/kpowersave > issue. > > kpowersave is stuck at assuming battery is loading and at 94%. Sysfs displays > battery state as Full: > > Frequent battery charging shortens lifetime of the battery, so some (may be all now) notebook manufacturers do not start charging battery until it discharge to some degree (~90%). It could be your case. Please try to discharge battery to, say, 89% and then check if it charges to the 100%. > - does ACPI battery code misuse POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_ENERGY_FULL? > - does HAL misuse .../energy_full? > - does kpowersave misuse battery.charge_level.last_full? >