Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/power/sbs-battery.c: capacity attr = remaining
 relative capacity
From: Rhyland Klein <rklein@nvidia.com>
To: Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@weinmann.de>
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        "cbouatmailru@gmail.com" <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 08:24:43 -0700
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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@weinmann.de>
> ---
>  drivers/power/sbs-battery.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Ack-ed Rhyland Klein <rklein@nvidia.com>

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