Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-wmi: restore battery charge limit support
From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 10:07:17 EST
On Tue, 18 Aug 2026, Luis Miguel Arias wrote:
> On ASUS systems where the charge threshold is supported through
> ASUS_WMI_DEVID_RSOC, initializing charge_end_threshold to -1 causes
> the sysfs attribute to return -ENODATA. This makes TLP consider
> charge threshold support unavailable.
>
> Initialize the cached threshold to 100 instead, allowing userspace
> to set the desired threshold normally.
>
> Tested on ASUS with TLP 1.8.0:
>
> Before this change:
> * charge_end_threshold = -1
> * TLP reported no charge threshold support
>
> After this change:
> * TLP reports "charge threshold" as supported
> * natacpi (asus_wmi) is active
> * charge_control_end_threshold can be set to 80%
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Miguel Arias <luismiguel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> index 80144c412..87363b198 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> @@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ static int asus_wmi_battery_add(struct power_supply *battery, struct acpi_batter
> * platforms retains it, therefore signal the threshold as unknown
> * until user explicitly sets it to a new value.
> */
> - charge_end_threshold = -1;
> + charge_end_threshold = 100;
Thank you for the submission but is is already covered by the commit
78bf392ba77d ("platform/x86: asus-wmi: temporarily revert to setting a
charge limit").
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i.