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Re: [PATCH] sbs-battery: make writes to ManufacturerAccess optional

From Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] sbs-battery: make writes to ManufacturerAccess optional
Date 2016-09-19 21:10 +0200
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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:10:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> According to the Smart Battery Data Specification, the use
> of ManufacturerAcess (register 0x0) is implementation-defined.
> It appears that some batteries use writes to this register
> in order to implement certain functionality, but others may
> simply NAK all writes to it. As a result, write failures to
> ManufacturerAccess should not be used as an indicator of
> battery presence, nor as a failure to enter sleep mode.
> 
> The failed write access was seen with SANYO AP13J3K.
> 
> Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Thanks, queued.

-- Sebastian

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