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

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

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

From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/43505: Lot of "acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard ..." while on AC 
        line
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:54:44 +0000

 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
 >
 > =C2=A0On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:40:00PM +0000, 
 > demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost =
 wrote: If
 > =C2=A0> I am on AC line I got a lot of messages in dmesg. These messages =
 are
 > =C2=A0> filling my /var/log/messages :
 > =C2=A0>
 > =C2=A0> Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rec=
 hargeable
 > =C2=A0> battery Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02=
 109
 > =C2=A0> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:33:24 Melon /netbsd: a=
 cpibat0:
 > =C2=A0> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah J=
 un 24
 > =C2=A0> 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeab=
 le
 > =C2=A0> battery Jun 24 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02=
 109
 > =C2=A0> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:33:43 Melon /netbsd: a=
 cpibat0:
 > =C2=A0> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah J=
 un 24
 > =C2=A0> 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeab=
 le
 > =C2=A0> battery Jun 24 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02=
 109
 > =C2=A0> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:34:02 Melon /netbsd: a=
 cpibat0:
 > =C2=A0> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah J=
 un 24
 > =C2=A0> 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: Hewlett-Packard LIon rechargeab=
 le
 > =C2=A0> battery Jun 24 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: acpibat0: serial number 02=
 109
 > =C2=A0> 2009/08/11, model number Primary Jun 24 21:34:21 Melon /netbsd: a=
 cpibat0:
 > =C2=A0> low->warn granularity: 0.100Ah, warn->full granularity: 0.100Ah
 >
 > =C2=A0The BIOS may update the status of the battery periodically. And Net=
 BSD
 > =C2=A0obediently prints the information every time.
 >
 > =C2=A0This is harmless (but annoying).
 >
 > =C2=A0Probably this should be printed only during the attachment. (Albeit=
  this
 > =C2=A0loses the information when e.g. two batteries are swapped at runtim=
 e.)
 >
 
 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.
 
 
 
 --=20
 Demelier David