Re: [PATCH 2/3] battery: Add the ThinkPad "Not Charging" quirk

From: Christoph BÃhmwalder
Date: Wed Dec 06 2017 - 18:55:40 EST


On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:53:01PM +0100, Ognjen Galic wrote:
> The EC/ACPI firmware on Lenovo ThinkPads used to report a status
> of "Unknown" when the battery is between the charge start and
> charge stop thresholds. On Windows, it reports "Not Charging"
> so the quirk has been added to also report correctly.
>
> Now the "status" attribute returns "Not Charging" when the
> battery on ThinkPads is not physicaly charging.

Hi again,

I just tried this patch(set) and it still seems to report "Unknown". We
can also discuss this on the IRC you mentioned earlier if you want, as I
said I'm open for testing.

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Regards,
Christoph