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From: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
To: "Rong Zhang" <i@rong.moe>, "Jelle van der Waa" <jelle@vdwaa.nl>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederik Harwath <frederik@harwath.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] platform/x86: add Acer battery control driver
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 20:53:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55294e45-ec2d-4506-8836-7fef99dd9698@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aefaa595ac8566086002e50fafd4194ceab23f01.camel@rong.moe>

Hi Rong,

On 11-May-26 18:09, Rong Zhang wrote:
> Hi Jelle,
> 
> On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 20:50 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
>> Some Acer laptops can configure battery related features through Acer
>> Care Center on Windows. This driver uses the power supply extension to
>> set a battery charge limit
>>
> 
> What does it limit? If it limits the charge capacity, ...
> 
>>  and exposes the battery

<snip>

> I recently learned that POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_TYPE_LONGLIFE is not the
> correct uapi for charge capacity limit. See
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/09d21c9cee8af49fa1d5b568358db0c347668ee9.camel@collabora.com/

As first dicussed here and acked by Sebastian Reichel the
power-supply subsys maintainer using charge_types exposing
standard + long-life is the correct thing to do when there
is a boolean long-life on/off toggle rather then a configurable
stop-charging percentage setting, see:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/49993a42-aa91-46bf-acef-4a089db4c2db@redhat.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20241209204051.8786-1-hdegoede@redhat.com/

and also here, which dicusses how upower now also supports
using charge_types for this.

https://vdwaa.nl/charge-types-api-upower.html

I've also replied in the thread.

TL;DR: your original approach to use charge_types in your
patch is correct.

Regards,

Hans



      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-11 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-10 18:50 [PATCH v3 0/1] platform/x86: add Acer battery control driver Jelle van der Waa
2026-05-10 18:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Jelle van der Waa
2026-05-11 11:54   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-05-11 16:09   ` Rong Zhang
2026-05-11 18:53     ` Hans de Goede [this message]

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