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Hans de Goede committed 19fffc8450d
ACPI / battery: Add handling for devices which wrongly report discharging state On quite a few devices the battery code in the ACPI tables is buggy and first checks the charging status bits of the charger-IC, and if those report not charging it will report discharging, without looking at the presence of AC power or at the battery dis(charge) current from the fuel-gauge. This causes the wrong status to be reported for the battery in the following quite common scenario: 1) Plug in charger while battery is say half full, battery starts charging, charging state bits indicate: pre-charge or fast-charge, ACPI reported battery status is ok 2) When fully charged charging state bits indicate: end-of-charge, ACPI reported battery status is ok 3) unplug the charger, wait 1 minute, replug. Now the battery voltage is still above the start-charging threshold, so the charger will not start charging to avoid wrecking the battery by repeatedly recharging the last 1% capacity. The charger IC charging state bits now are all 0 (not-charging) and the broken ACPI code wrongly translate this to "discharging" and ends up setting the ACPI_BATTERY_STATE_DISCHARGING bit in its state field. Reporting this "not charging" state as discharging is confusing for users, making the user think his adapter/power-brick is broken or not properly plugged in. This commit adds a helper for handling the ACPI_BATTERY_STATE_DISCHARGING state. This helper checks if we're an AC and the current going out of the battery is 0 and in that case reports a status of "not charging" to userspace rather then "discharging". This replaces commit c68f0676ef7d ("ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus GL502VSK and UX305LA"), a previous fix for this which was reverted. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>