Improper failure declarations for cmbat

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Sun Dec 19 11:07:24 PST 2004


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.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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