RE: [PATCH] drivers/power/sbs-battery.c: don't trigger falsesupply_changed event

[Rhyland Klein]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 2:31, Nikolaus Voss wrote:
>power_supply_changed() events are triggerd based on the return value
>of a get_property() call. However the property TECHNOLOGY is
>hard-coded to LION in this driver, thus always succeeds.
>
>So, with the battery removed, this triggers a false battery present
>uevent. This uevent triggers a new query via power_supply_uevent()
>which again starts to query all known properties and thus leads to
>an infinite loop of battery present/not-present uevents.
>
>This patch skips the battery presence detection for the hard-coded
>property TECHNOLOGY.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by Rhyland Klein <rklein@xxxxxxxxxx>

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