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Daniel Drake 82bf43b291 Revert "ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus GL502VSK and UX305LA" 
Revert commit c68f0676ef ("ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus
GL502VSK and UX305LA") and commit 4446823e25 ("ACPI / battery: Add
quirk for Asus UX360UA and UX410UAK").

On many many Asus products, the battery is sometimes reported as
charging or discharging even when it is full and you are on AC power.
This change quirked the kernel to avoid advertising the discharging
state when this happens on 4 laptop models, under the belief that
this was incorrect information.  I presume it originates from user
reports who are confused that their battery status icon says that it
is discharging.

However, the reported information is indeed correct, and the quirk
approach taken is inadequate and more thought is needed first.
Specifically:

 1. It only quirks discharging state, not charging

 2. There are so many different Asus products and DMI naming variants
    within those product families that behave this way; Linux could
    grow to quirk hundreds of products and still not even be close at
    "winning" this battle.

 3. Asus previously clarified that this behaviour is intentional. The
    platform will periodically do a partial discharge/charge cycle
    when the battery is full, because this is one way to extend the
    lifetime of the battery (leaving a battery at 100% charge and
    unused will decrease its usable capacity over time).

    My understanding is that any decent consumer product will have
    this behaviour, but it appears that Asus is different in that
    they expose this info through ACPI.

    However, the behaviour seems correct. The ACPI spec does not
    suggest in that the platform should hide the truth.  It lets you
    report that the battery is full of charge, and discharging, and
    with external power connected; and Asus does this.

 4. In terms of not confusing the user, this seems like something that
    could/should be handled by userspace, which can also detect these
    same (accurate) conditions in the general case.

Revert this quirk before it gets included in a release, while we look
for better approaches.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Acked-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-03-19 10:08:39 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-18 12:03:15 -07:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation USB fixes for 4.16-rc6 2018-03-14 10:05:59 -07:00
drivers Revert "ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus GL502VSK and UX305LA" 2018-03-19 10:08:39 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs for-4.16-rc5-tag 2018-03-16 13:37:42 -07:00
include * PPC: Fix bug leading to lost IPIs and smp_call_function_many() 2018-03-18 11:23:12 -07:00
init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-18 12:03:15 -07:00
lib btree: avoid variable-length allocations 2018-03-14 16:55:29 -07:00
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mm Revert "mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblock alignment" 2018-03-14 16:33:28 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-05 11:29:24 -08:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts kbuild: Handle builtin dtb file names containing hyphens 2018-03-09 01:14:38 +09:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.16 2018-03-12 17:30:38 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-18 12:03:15 -07:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt kvm/arm fixes for 4.16, take 2 2018-03-15 21:45:37 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge remote-tracking branches 'asoc/fix/amd', 'asoc/fix/hdmi-codec', 'asoc/fix/rt5651', 'asoc/fix/samsung', 'asoc/fix/sgtl5000', 'asoc/fix/sunxi' and 'asoc/fix/wm-adsp' into asoc-linus 2018-03-12 09:14:07 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc6 2018-03-18 17:48:42 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.