Bug#662902: Please include the sbs-battery driver (CONFIG_BATTERY_SBS=m)
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:23:49AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 21:49 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-3.3.0-rc6-amd64
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Please consider including the sbs-battery driver, CONFIG_BATTERY_SBS=m.
> > This driver supports i2c-attached "Smart Battery System"
> > batteries. I have an Atom board with such a battery. (Such batteries
> > can exist on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86.)
>
> The same driver exists in 3.2, but under a different name (bq20z75). Do
> you think it would be useful to build it for wheezy too?
Less so, but yes. As far as I know, sbs-battery drives a superset of
hardware, but bq20z75 does drive a useful subset (though one that
doesn't include the hardware I actually have). Having bq20z75 in the
wheezy 3.2 kernel wouldn't serve the particular purpose I had in mind
for it, but it seems potentially useful.
- Josh Triplett
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