Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:04:13 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improper failure declarations for cmbat Message-ID: <41C65D4D.8030807@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20041219190723.85A795D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20041219190723.85A795D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: > I have an IBM T30 with 2 batteries. Yesterday I was running on battery > for a while and completely exhausted the secondary battery. The primary > never dropped below about 75%. > > When the secondary dropped, acpi_cmbat1 started spitting out large > numbers of errors. > acpi_cmbat1: critically low charge! > While the messages are correct, they are not really appropriate when the > primary battery is fully charged and is both annoying and fills up the > log, possibly causing "real" messages to be missed. I would suggest that > no battery critical warning be issued unless all batteries are critical. Thanks for the bug report. I just committed a small fix to only report the message once. Checking all batteries is a larger change that we can examine in the future. -- Nate
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