Re: [PATCH 2/3] power/ds2760_battery: make charge_now andcharge_full_design writeable

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 05:52:21 EST


On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:52:12PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> For userspace tools and daemons, it might be necessary to adjust
> the charge_now and charge_full_design properties of the ds2760 battery
> monitor, for example for unavoidable corrections due to aging batteries.

Changing charge_full_design seems really odd - I'd really expect that to
be something which is constant throughout the lifetime of the system. A
separate property showing the degraded capacity would be a bit less
surprising.
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