Hi, On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 11:07:28PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi everyone (Thinkpad-ACPI, ACPI, and Power supply maintainers), > > some might know that I presented a patch set adding support for > charge thresholds to thinkpad_acpi about 1.5 years ago. Can you provide a link to the patch set? > Back then, one of the major rejections was that the functionality > for setting charge thresholds should be integrated into the > power supply stack somehow. I did not know who to contact back > then, but know I re-read MAINTAINERS and found all your addresses, > so I give it a second try. > > One issue with just integrating it in the current battery > directories would be that ThinkPads are able to set charge > thresholds for batteries that are currently not inserted. So the power supply device should be kept with POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_PRESENT being disabled (and most properties returning -ENODATA). The ACPI SBS driver seems to implement POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_PRESENT, but I didn't test it. > Back then I wrote: > > The next step is to integrate this properly with power supply > > and/or acpi battery. One way would be to add additional power > > supply properties and then add get/set_property() pointers to > > the acpi battery which it can fall back to if it does not support > > a requested property (and we would locate the ACPI battery and > > set those pointers to new thinkpad_acpi functions). > > If you, the ACPI and power supply people, have any preferred > way (or any idea at all how) to proceed, that would be useful, > so I don't start working on it again, and then somebody does > not like it. Adding charging thresholds as power_supply_property sounds fine to me. -- Sebastian
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