Re: [PATCH 00/17] Report power supply from hid-logitech-dj and others

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 15:35 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 15:35 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > I tried to revive the in-kernel battery support for HID++ devices.
> > I was thinking of doing just a few patches, but in the end I had to
> > do
> > cleanups and some more tweaks...
> > 
> > So, the final result is that now hid-logitech-hidpp should allow to
> > handle any HID++ device, no matter which connection it uses.
> > I was able to test it on some unifying devices, some USB and
> > Bluetooth,
> > but I'd like to get the confirmation from Simon that I did not
> > break
> > the G920.
> > 
> > Other than that, I implemented most features asked by Bastien
> > during
> > the
> > last round:
> > - have a sysfs file to indicate we are capable of power_supply
> > - use ONLINE capability (not sure if I mess something up or if
> > Gnome
> > handles
> >   it correctly)
> > - report product, serial and manufacturer
> > - report K750 battery info (not Lux, sorry)
> > - report HID++ 1.0 battery info
> > 
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I've tested your patches with the kernel build that you kindly
> provided. The output of "upower -d", here[1], shows both a K750
> keyboard (the one with the solar charging) and a T650 touchpad (which
> was plugged in to a separate power supply when testing).
> 
> Here's a jumble of notes:
> - UPower expects the serial number to be available when the device is
> created. This wasn't the case for the keyboard here, and we end up
> with
> no serial number, even though the serial_number sysfs file is now
> populated

I think I've fixed this, the code in UPower didn't even try to read the
serial_number attribute, for "devices" (as opposed to the batteries
that power the computer).

> - the K750's battery state doesn't seem to match that found by the
> UPower code, eg. it's stuck in "Unknown" when upower could detect
> that
> it is charging (it's sunny here). That might also be why the icon is
> stuck at "battery-missing-symbolic".
> - the model names of the batteries seem to have manufacturer
> information prepended, eg. vendor: Logitech model_name: Logitech K750
> I'd have expected to only have "K750" there.
> - the touchpad is detected as a random "battery", but that's likely
> due
> to the slightly dodgy code in UPower (look for "try to detect using
> the
> device type" and cringe)

This is fixed in UPower master, and it's much nicer.

> - the serial number is in a different format than in UPower:
>   kernel: 4101-6f-63-fd-39
>   UPower: 6F63FD39
> 
> I'll look at updating the UPower code, thanks.
> 
> UPower's "power_supply_ class code:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/tree/src/linux/up-device-supply.c
> and its HID++ support:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/tree/src/linux/up-device-unifying
> .c
> 
> [1]: https://paste.fedoraproject.org/535093/51785481
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