Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2011 02:00:50 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/14] POWER: BQ27x00: New Properties, fixes, bq27000 support | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote: > 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? > > 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.
Well, it has a bq27200 AFAIK.
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