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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: re: kern/43505: Lot of "acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard ..." while on AC line
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:11:08 +1000

 >  > 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.)
 
 only log when it changes?  all these look the same to me...