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

[David DEMELIER <demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost>]

2010/6/24 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
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: kern/43505: Lot of "acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard ..." while on AC 
> line
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:53:31 +0300
>
> ÂOn Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:40:00PM +0000, demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost 
> wrote: If
> Â> I am on AC line I got a lot of messages in dmesg. These messages are
> Â> filling my /var/log/messages :
> Â>
> Â> Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
> Â> battery Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
> Â> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
> Â> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah Jun 24
> Â> 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
> Â> battery Jun 24 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
> Â> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
> Â> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah Jun 24
> Â> 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
> Â> battery Jun 24 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
> Â> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
> Â> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah Jun 24
> Â> 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeable
> Â> battery Jun 24 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02109
> Â> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0:
> Â> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah
>
> ÂThe BIOS may update the status of the battery periodically. And NetBSD
> Âobediently prints the information every time.
>
> ÂThis is harmless (but annoying).
>
> ÂProbably this should be printed only during the attachment. (Albeit this
> Âloses the information when e.g. two batteries are swapped at runtime.)
>

You probably in the right way, I tried on ubuntu and it's the same :

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ acpi_listen
battery BAT0 00000081 00000001
battery BAT0 00000081 00000001
battery BAT0 00000081 00000001

With the same time interval.



-- 
Demelier David