On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 01:36:41PM +0100, Jan Vcelak wrote:
> Some degraded batteries report maximal capacity to be smaller than
> current charge of the battery. This can confuse some user space
> applications (like upower).

Can't we just fix upower?

> +
> +     /* Some degraded batteries report lower full charge than current one. */
> +     if (battery->capacity_now > battery->full_charge_capacity)
> +             battery->full_charge_capacity = battery->capacity_now;
> +

Does upower read *_full on every read of the value? How do we guarantee 
that it won't read energy_now without updating energy_full and still 
come up with an incorrect calculation?

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Matthew Garrett | [email protected]
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