Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:09:48 +0100 | From | Lars-Peter Clausen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/14] POWER: BQ27x00: New Properties, fixes, bq27000 support |
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On 02/06/2011 11:47 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote: >> This patch series contains a few updates for the bq27x00 driver: >> * Support for additional power supply properties >> * Support for the bq27000 battery which is identical to the bq27200 but is >> connected through the HDQ bus. >> * Adds a register cache to the driver and introduces polling the batteries state >> * Minor improvements and cleanups >> >> The last patch in this series is not specific to the bq27x00 driver but is >> required for uevents to be generated properly for this driver. >> The patch makes properties which return -ENODATA to be ignored when generating >> uevents. Previously in such a case uevent generation would have been aborted >> with an error. But since the bq27x00 return -ENODATA for the TIME_TO_FULL >> property when the battery is not charging and for the TIME_TO_EMPTY property >> when the battery is not discharging and at least one of them is always true >> uevent generation would always fail. >> >> This series has so far been tested with the bq27000 and the bq27200 battery, but >> not with the bq27500 battery, so it would be nice if somebody with a board >> containing such a battery could test the patches to make sure that there are no >> regressions. > > This might be a bit off-topic, but I have tried to get the battery on > the Nokia N900 working, and so far I'm only able to query the > remaining capacity, but not really to enabling charging. This is very > annoying, as I can only hack a certain amount of time, and then I have > to reflash, reboot, and wait for the batter to charge with the > official system (if there's enough power to flash). > > Do you have any hints how to do that? >
Hi
Sorry, I've never worked with the N900, so I have no idea. But Pali has tested this patch series on his N900, so he might have an idea.
- Lars
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