Re: [PATCH] HID: logitech-hidpp: add support for Unified Battery (1004) feature

From: Bastien Nocera
Date: Wed Jan 06 2021 - 14:18:29 EST


On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 18:48 +0000, Filipe Laíns wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 10:34 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 18:29 +0000, lains@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Filipe Laíns <lains@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This new feature present in new devices replaces the old Battery
> > > Level
> > > Status (0x1000) feature. It keeps essentially the same
> > > information
> > > for
> > > levels (reporting critical, low, good and full) but makes these
> > > levels
> > > optional, the device exports a capability setting which describes
> > > which
> > > levels it supports. In addition to this, there is an optional
> > > state_of_charge paramenter that exports the battery percentage.
> > >
> > > This patch adds support for this new feature. There were some
> > > implementation choices, as described below and in the code.
> > >
> > > If the device supports the state_of_charge parameter, we will
> > > just
> > > export the battery percentage and not the levels, which the
> > > device
> > > might
> > > still support.
> >
> > I'm guessing that means no changes needed on the upower side?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
>
> Yes :)
> I tested upower and all works as expected.
>
> There will still be devices that only support battery voltage, so I
> might
> implement the battery voltage to charge percentage in a future patch.

I sent a WIP patch at the end of November for that, it wasn't even
compile-tested, but might be a good base to start from.

I don't think that I have any hardware that supports that feature in
any case.

Cheers