Re: [PATCH] drivers/power/sbs-battery.c: capacity attr = remainingrelative capacity

From: Rhyland Klein
Date: Fri May 04 2012 - 11:31:22 EST


On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 23:59 -0700, Nikolaus Voss wrote:
> Currently, the capacity exported by this driver refers to reg 0x0e,
> which is the absolute state of charge which according to SBS
> refers to the design capacity/ energy of the battery. It can be
> > 100 % and drops below 100 % for a fully charged battery with
> the battery aging.
>
> This is not what the user exspects of a remaining capacity
> indication between 0 and 100 % with 100 % referring to
> a fully charged battery. This is provided by SBS reg 0x0d,
> which is the relative state of charge referring to the
> full charge capacity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/power/sbs-battery.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Ack-ed Rhyland Klein <rklein@xxxxxxxxxx>

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