From: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: multinymous@gmail.com, xavier.bestel@free.fr, davidz@redhat.com,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, len.brown@intel.com, greg@kroah.com,
benh@kernel.crashing.org,
linux-thinkpad mailing list <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:39:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162456780.4983.3.camel@hughsie-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <znLIYxER.1162453921.3011900.khali@localhost>
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 08:52 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> You just need to know the voltage of the battery, what else?
This isn't as easy as you think. The number of broken BIOS's that have
the current, last full or design either as 0xFFFF, 0xFFFFFF, 0, 1mV, or
10000mV rather than the present (correct) value is a big problem.
We've got quite a bit of code in HAL to try and sort out all the quirks,
although it only works most of the time due to extreme hardware
brokenness.
Richard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-02 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1161628327.19446.391.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
2006-10-23 19:18 ` Battery class driver Dan Williams
2006-10-23 19:58 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-23 20:10 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-23 20:48 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24 3:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24 17:18 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-25 7:42 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 9:54 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 12:11 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 14:42 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 22:25 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 23:39 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-28 12:15 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-28 13:22 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-28 14:34 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-28 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-28 14:55 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 18:52 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 19:48 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 21:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 15:09 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 15:31 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 18:12 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-31 7:49 ` Greg KH
2006-10-31 13:28 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 19:31 ` Greg KH
2006-11-01 19:53 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 20:53 ` Greg KH
2006-11-01 23:55 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-02 3:45 ` Greg KH
2006-11-02 17:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-02 19:19 ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-02 21:20 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-03 12:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-03 15:13 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-11-02 22:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-03 13:12 ` U Kuehn
2006-11-05 20:52 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-05 21:02 ` Jean Delvare
2006-11-01 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-01 21:32 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-31 7:59 ` Jean Delvare
2006-10-31 13:42 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-31 13:51 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-10-31 14:06 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 13:26 ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-01 13:54 ` David Woodhouse
2006-11-01 14:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-01 16:36 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 16:55 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-01 19:30 ` Greg KH
2006-11-02 7:52 ` Jean Delvare
2006-11-02 8:39 ` Richard Hughes [this message]
2006-11-02 13:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-02 17:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-02 19:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-11-03 13:23 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-03 14:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-11-03 16:10 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-10-28 18:55 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 19:53 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 21:05 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 21:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-10-26 9:55 ` [ltp] " FeRD
2006-10-28 5:12 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-24 3:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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