On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:27:50 -0700
Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> With the latest current, I'm seeing bogus values for the battery information.  
> An example (4.99.42 from this morning):
> 
> # envstat
> [acpiacad0]
>   connected:         ON
> [acpibat0]
>          present:         ON
>       design cap:    164.010 Wh
>    last full cap:    492.800 Wh
>       technology:          1
>   design voltage:     10.772 V
>         warn cap:     24.640 Wh ( 5.00%)
>          low cap:      0.200 Wh ( 0.04%)
>          voltage:     12.417 V
>      charge rate:        N/A
>   discharge rate:        N/A
>           charge:     44.690 Wh ( 9.07%)
>         charging:        OFF
>     charge state:     NORMAL
> [acpitz0]
>      temperature:     52.000 degC
> [aps0]
>           aps0 X_ACCEL:        476
>           aps0 Y_ACCEL:        514
>             aps0 X_VAR:        476
>             aps0 Y_VAR:        514
>            aps0 TEMP_1:     44.000 degC
>            aps0 TEMP_2:     44.000 degC
>   aps0 Keyboard Active:         ON
>      aps0 Mouse Active:        OFF
>          aps0 Lid Open:         ON
> 
> Notice the "last full cap" and the "design cap" values.  There is also a very 
> noticable delay before the output appears.  With my latest good kernel 
> (4.99.40 from 6 Dec),  I get
> 
> #  envstat
> [acpiacad0]
>   connected:         ON
> [acpibat0]
>          present:         ON
>       design cap:     51.840 Wh
>    last full cap:     45.440 Wh
>       technology:          1
>   design voltage:     10.800 V
>         warn cap:      2.272 Wh ( 5.00%)
>          low cap:      0.200 Wh ( 0.44%)
>          voltage:     12.417 V
>      charge rate:        N/A
>   discharge rate:        N/A
>           charge:     44.690 Wh (98.35%)
>         charging:        OFF
>     charge state:     NORMAL
> [acpitz0]
>      temperature:     54.000 degC
> [aps0]
>           aps0 X_ACCEL:        477
>           aps0 Y_ACCEL:        515
>             aps0 X_VAR:        477
>             aps0 Y_VAR:        515
>            aps0 TEMP_1:     46.000 degC
>            aps0 TEMP_2:     46.000 degC
>   aps0 Keyboard Active:        OFF
>      aps0 Mouse Active:        OFF
>          aps0 Lid Open:         ON
> 
> I've attached the dmesg from 4.99.42, below.  I suspect a pertinent line is:
> 
> acpiec0 at acpi0 (EC, PNP0C09-0): ACPI Embedded Controller (disabled)
> 
> The dmesg diffs the working 4.99.40 kernel are:

The acpiec code was rewritten by joerg in the jmcneill-pm branch, and all
those wrong values are there because there's some problem with the new acpiec.

Joerg, do you want to investigate this issue?

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