Re: LG laptop driver not working on recent models

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On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 2:44 PM Alessandro Zarrilli
<alessandro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Note: I'm adding Andy in CC because I see he was the committer of the driver I'm going to talk about.
>
> Hi Matan,
>
> I see you are the maintainer of the Linux kernel LG Gram laptop driver (linux/drivers/platform/x86/lg-laptop.c).
>
> I've just bought the LG Gram 2020 version (product code 17Z990). I'm running Kernel 5.4.0, but unfortunately it seems your driver is not working correctly on this laptop model.
>
> Take for example "battery care limit", the feature I'm interested the most:
>
> # cat /sys/devices/platform/lg-laptop/battery_care_limit
> 0
> # echo 80 > /sys/devices/platform/lg-laptop/battery_care_limit
> # cat /sys/devices/platform/lg-laptop/battery_care_limit
> 0
> # echo 100 > /sys/devices/platform/lg-laptop/battery_care_limit
> # cat /sys/devices/platform/lg-laptop/battery_care_limit
> 0
>
> Is there any chance you could fix this? Can I help in any way? I'm not skilled in C programming (just used it a long time ago), but I'm an old time developer and Linux system administrator: if you give me some hints, maybe I could sort it out myself.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Alessandro



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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