On Wed, 07 Feb 2018, 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. > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ognjen Galic <smclt30p@xxxxxxxxx> AFAIK, This behavior goes back to the initial SBS implementation in the IBM era ECs of the Thinkpads... We've always called it "idle" in the linux-thinkpad community. The behavior comes from SBS (http://smartbattery.org/specs/), the EC was reporting its status (charging/not charging *THIS* battery) in one bit, and the battery's status (discharging/not discharging *THIS* battery) in a different bit. It was rather simple to observe the behavior of those bits in a two-battery system. Would that apply to these newer Lenovo models? If so, you might want to consider using "idle", instead. "not charging" does _not_ imply "neither charging nor discharging", while "idle" does. -- Henrique Holschuh
