Re: [PATCH]: pbook apm_emu.c fix remaining time when charging

From: Soeren Sonnenburg
Date: Sun Oct 10 2004 - 09:56:33 EST


On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 10:09 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 06:11, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
[...]
> if (amperage < 0) {
> + /* when less than 100mA are used the machine must be on AC and as it is
> + not charging the battery is only slightly self decharging and thus full be definition */
> + if (amperage < 100) {
>
> There must be something wrong in the above...

Yes you are right, I check for amperage < 0 first and then for
amperage < 100. It should of course be amperage < -100 and is meant for
the case where one is on AC, battery was fully charged and which is now
slightly decharging by less than 100mA/min leading to a remaining time
being displayed of more than 700 hours left.

/proc/apm output with that patch (but wrong check amperage < 100):
0.5 1.1 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x01 99% 92276 min

/proc/apm output with new patch:
0.5 1.1 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x01 99% 0 min

This is the /proc/pmu/battery_0 equivalent.

flags : 00000011
charge : 3130
max_charge : 3148
current : -2
voltage : 16629
time rem. : 5634000

Well it is a special case to be dealt with... one could aswell change
the flags from 'high battery' status to 'charging' or return -1 as the
remaining time... However the battery is fully charged but as the system
is on AC it is simply idling messing up the remaining time.

> + time_units = (charge * 59) / (amperage * -1);
> + else
> + time_units = (charge * 16440) / (amperage * -60);
>
> Can you make sure also that amperage is never 0 ?

actually that is dealt with already as there is a check for both
amperage < 0 and for amperage > 0.

Soeren.
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--- t/linux-2.6.9-rc3/drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.c 2004-09-30 05:05:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.9-rc3-sonne/drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.c 2004-10-10 08:46:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@
char * p = buf;
char charging = 0;
long charge = -1;
+ long max_charge = -1;
long amperage = 0;
unsigned long btype = 0;

@@ -450,9 +451,12 @@
percentage = 0;
if (charge < 0)
charge = 0;
+ if (max_charge < 0)
+ max_charge = 0;
percentage += (pmu_batteries[i].charge * 100) /
pmu_batteries[i].max_charge;
charge += pmu_batteries[i].charge;
+ max_charge += pmu_batteries[i].max_charge;
amperage += pmu_batteries[i].amperage;
if (btype == 0)
btype = (pmu_batteries[i].flags & PMU_BATT_TYPE_MASK);
@@ -461,13 +465,27 @@
charging++;
}
}
+
if (real_count) {
if (amperage < 0) {
+ /* when less than 100mA are used the machine must be on AC and as it is
+ not charging the battery is only slightly self decharging and thus full be definition */
+ if (amperage < -100) {
+ if (btype == PMU_BATT_TYPE_SMART)
+ time_units = (charge * 59) / (amperage * -1);
+ else
+ time_units = (charge * 16440) / (amperage * -60);
+ }
+ else
+ time_units = 0;
+ }
+ else if (amperage > 0 && max_charge >= charge) {
if (btype == PMU_BATT_TYPE_SMART)
- time_units = (charge * 59) / (amperage * -1);
+ time_units = ( (max_charge - charge) * 59) / amperage;
else
- time_units = (charge * 16440) / (amperage * -60);
+ time_units = ( (max_charge - charge) * 16440) / amperage;
}
+
percentage /= real_count;
if (charging > 0) {
battery_status = 0x03;
@@ -483,6 +501,7 @@
battery_flag = 0x01;
}
}
+
p += sprintf(p, "%s %d.%d 0x%02x 0x%02x 0x%02x 0x%02x %d%% %d %s\n",
driver_version,
(FAKE_APM_BIOS_VERSION >> 8) & 0xff,