[PATCH 4/6] various janitorial work on the pcf50633.c

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at openmoko.org
Sat May 10 15:13:42 CEST 2008


On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:46:20 +0200 Holger Freyther <zecke at openmoko.org> babbled:

> On Saturday 10 May 2008 14:06:18 Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> > We ship only with HDQ batteries, that's correct.
> > But people may well have old GTA01 batteries, or use compatible Nokia
> > BL-4C/5C/6C batteries, or no-name replacements for those.
> > Our battery driver and infrastructure should be as robust as possible.
> > Wolfgang
> 
> The driver is robust. Currently "cat /proc/apm" is returning -1 for HDQ based 
> batteries, after the patch a sane number is reported (good for the product). 
> Regarding "acme replacement batteries". They will charge, "cat /proc/apm" 
> will return a wrong voltage number, but we don't know the battery curve of 
> these batteries anyway. The best I can think of is to have a sysfs file 
> somewhere to switch between ADC and HDQ...and move this prob' to userspace.

hmmm. grrr. ok - this is painful. i ready battery
from /sys/class/power_supply/... the new 2.6.24+ generic power supply
interface. even if /proc/apm exists - it prefers the newer interface. this is
rather painful that you need to flip interfaces on the fly - i had the code all
wonderfully generic and automatic so it'd use the newest interface available if
it exists, but this does kind of make life painful unless older
non-coulomb-counter batteries are emulated via /sys/class/power_supply/ as
well. are they?


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