Re: [PATCHv1 00/19] Improve SBS battery support

[Sebastian Reichel]

Hi,

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 06:27:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > This patchset improves support for SBS compliant batteries. Due to
> > the changes, the battery now exposes 32 power supply properties and
> > (un)plugging it generates a backtrace containing the following message
> > without the first patch in this series:
> > 
> > ---------------------------
> > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 20 at lib/kobject_uevent.c:659 add_uevent_var+0xd4/0x104
> > add_uevent_var: too many keys
> > ---------------------------
> > 
> > For references this is what an SBS battery status looks like after
> > the patch series has been applied:
> > 
> > POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=10800000
> > POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN=10800000
> 
> Is that correct, BTW? sounds like these should not be equal...

(Some) GE batteries have weird values stored in the SBS chip.
For example manufacturer and model name are swapped:

POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=UR18650A
POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=GEHC

I carefully checked manufacturer/model name when writing these
patches some time ago and came to the conclusion that the batteries
do report it the wrong way around.

I will have a look for the design voltages (which are not modified
by this patchset), but I expect this to be another GE specific thing.

-- Sebastian

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