From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: Detecting that a battery is inside a dock? Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 22:43:24 +0200 Message-ID: <5301673.l2qe00NcFC@vostro.rjw.lan> References: <1430320098.2525.105.camel@hadess.net> <238522372.SKjufVyRkH@vostro.rjw.lan> <1430989899.2786.19.camel@hadess.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from v094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:60640 "HELO v094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751167AbbEGUST (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 16:18:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1430989899.2786.19.camel@hadess.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Bastien Nocera Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:11:39 AM Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 00:26 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 04:20:17 PM Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 17:08 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > I have access to a convertible Toshiba machine where the 2nd > > > > battery > > > > is in detachable keyboard. This is the decompiled DSDT: > > > > https://hadess.fedorapeople.org/toshiba.dsl > > > > > > > > There's no BAT0, BAT1 is in the screen, and BAT2 is in the > > > > keyboard. > > > > > > > > BAT2 can be ejected (it has an _EJD method), but the dock code > > > > doesn't > > > > see it as having a battery: > > > > $ pwd > > > > /sys/devices/platform/dock.0 > > > > $ cat flags > > > > 16 > > > > $ cat type > > > > dock_station > > > > > > > > Any ideas what might be missing here? > > > > > > > > I'd eventually like to be able to say that, if I can detect that > > > > the > > > > battery is inside the dock, to mark it as such in the UI[1] > > > > (even > > > > better would be to say it's "in the keyboard" but I'm not sure > > > > we > > > > can > > > > easily detect that). > > > > > > Anyone? > > > > Not now, sorry. Too many things are going on in parallel and this > > one is > > not the most urgent of them. > > Sure. I didn't expect a bug fix straight away, I just wanted to know > whether I was missing something. > > > Please file a bug for it at bugzilla.kernel.org in the ACPI > > category, so it's > > not forgotten. Those bugs are looked at on a regular basis, so > > we'll get to > > it at one point. > > > > Filed as: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97841 Thanks!