Re: kern/43505: Lot of "acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard ..." while on AC line

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43505; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/43505: Lot of "acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard ..." while on AC line
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:53:31 +0300

 On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:40:00PM +0000, demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost 
wrote: If
 > I am on AC line I got a lot of messages in dmesg. These messages are
 > filling my /var/log/messages :
 > 
 > Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
 > battery Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
 > 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
 > low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah Jun 24
 > 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
 > battery Jun 24 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
 > 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
 > low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah Jun 24
 > 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
 > battery Jun 24 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
 > 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
 > low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah Jun 24
 > 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
 > battery Jun 24 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
 > 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
 > low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah
 
 The BIOS may update the status of the battery periodically. And NetBSD
 obediently prints the information every time.
 
 This is harmless (but annoying).
 
 Probably this should be printed only during the attachment. (Albeit this
 loses the information when e.g. two batteries are swapped at runtime.)