Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754354Ab1BGALB (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:11:01 -0500 Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de ([134.100.9.70]:49199 "EHLO mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754212Ab1BGALA (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:11:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4F38E9.4030806@metafoo.de> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:12:25 +0100 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Contreras CC: Anton Vorontsov , Rodolfo Giometti , Grazvydas Ignotas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?UGFsaSBSb2jDoXI=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] POWER: BQ27x00: New Properties, fixes, bq27000 support References: <1296953291-10373-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <4D4F2A3C.9070407@metafoo.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2482 Lines: 50 On 02/07/2011 01:00 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >> On 02/06/2011 11:47 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >>>> This patch series contains a few updates for the bq27x00 driver: >>>> * Support for additional power supply properties >>>> * Support for the bq27000 battery which is identical to the bq27200 but is >>>> connected through the HDQ bus. >>>> * Adds a register cache to the driver and introduces polling the batteries state >>>> * Minor improvements and cleanups >>>> >>>> The last patch in this series is not specific to the bq27x00 driver but is >>>> required for uevents to be generated properly for this driver. >>>> The patch makes properties which return -ENODATA to be ignored when generating >>>> uevents. Previously in such a case uevent generation would have been aborted >>>> with an error. But since the bq27x00 return -ENODATA for the TIME_TO_FULL >>>> property when the battery is not charging and for the TIME_TO_EMPTY property >>>> when the battery is not discharging and at least one of them is always true >>>> uevent generation would always fail. >>>> >>>> This series has so far been tested with the bq27000 and the bq27200 battery, but >>>> not with the bq27500 battery, so it would be nice if somebody with a board >>>> containing such a battery could test the patches to make sure that there are no >>>> regressions. >>> >>> This might be a bit off-topic, but I have tried to get the battery on >>> the Nokia N900 working, and so far I'm only able to query the >>> remaining capacity, but not really to enabling charging. This is very >>> annoying, as I can only hack a certain amount of time, and then I have >>> to reflash, reboot, and wait for the batter to charge with the >>> official system (if there's enough power to flash). >>> >>> Do you have any hints how to do that? >> >> Sorry, I've never worked with the N900, so I have no idea. But Pali has tested this >> patch series on his N900, so he might have an idea. > > Well, it has a bq27200 AFAIK. > It has, but that doesn't tell you anything about the charging circuit. - Lars -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/