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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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