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== Feedback ==
 
  
Great, great work! Really! This completely rocks. I just stopped my battery from charging at 77% and restarted charging a bit later, no problems whatsoever. BTW, this is on kernel 2.6.14.3.
 
 
--[[User:Spiney|spiney]] 21:25, 5 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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None of the fuctions is working on my T40, kernel 2.6.14-mm2.
 
 
--[[User:Lammic|lammic]], 2005.12.05
 
 
Works for me on a T41 running 2.6.12-10-686 (Ubuntu 5.10).
 
 
--[[User:berndtnm|berndtnm]], 2005.12.06
 
 
Including stop_charge_thresh? That one seems to be missing on the T42p.
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 00:46, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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tp_smapi works just fine on an R52 with Ubuntu Breezy stock kernel.
 
 
--[[User:Micampe|Micampe]] 12:52, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
 
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''To set the thresholds for starting and stopping battery charging (in percent of current capacity):''
 
 
'''current''' really? That'd be weird, I'd expect it to be percent of '''total''' capacity.
 
 
--[[User:Micampe|Micampe]] 14:39, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
 
"Current full charge capacity", as opposed to "current remaining capacity" or "designed full charge capacity"...
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 15:05, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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Battery features don't work with my T41p. I can't check this with windows. Can anybody try these features?
 
 
-- Nils, 7 Dec 2005
 
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Nils, does cdrom_speed work for you on the T41p? Could you provide the details requested in the README (dmesg etc.)?
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 21:57, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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CDRom Speed seems to work. (I see no warnings, but I have to do a speed test.) Now, I've send all outputs to the email-address in the readme.
 
 
-- Nils, 8 Dec 2005
 
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All the features except the stop_charge_thresh seem to work here on a t42p.
 
One note, the start_charge_thresh seems to really be stop_charge_thresh. Ie, If I set that to lower than my current battery %, it will never charge,
 
and if I set it to 100 the battery charges all the way.
 
 
--[[User:Nirik|Nirik]] 16 Dec 2005
 
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Nirik, "all the features" as of which version? For example, do the force_discharge{1,2} in tp_smapi 0.12 also work for you? See the table in the article page. About start_charge, that's odd. Can you send me a log of what you did, what was the result a what was the dmesg output for each operation?
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 14:16, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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System T40p:
 
 
<pre>
 
fairlight:/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0# echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/force_discharge1
 
fairlight:/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0# echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/force_discharge2
 
fairlight:/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0# dmesg 
 
tp_smapi: req_in: BX=2118 CX=100 DI=0 SI=0
 
tp_smapi: req_out: AX=8680 BX=2118 CX=100 DX=b2 DI=0 SI=0 ret=-38
 
tp_smapi: SMAPI error: Function is not supported by SMAPI BIOS (func=2118)
 
tp_smapi: cannot get force_discharge1 of battery 0: Function is not supported by SMAPI BIOS
 
tp_smapi: req_in: BX=2104 CX=100 DI=0 SI=0
 
tp_smapi: req_out: AX=80 BX=2103 CX=100 DX=78 DI=0 SI=0 ret=0
 
tp_smapi: cannot get force_discharge2 of battery 0: bx=2103
 
</pre>
 
 
So it seems force_discharge1 is not supported at all. But force_discharge2? By the way, i think wiki is a _very_ good idea for collecting information, but not for discussion. I would prefer a maillinglist. We can use sourceforge.
 
 
--[[User|StefanSchmidt]]
 
 
==Changing the CD speed when the CD is being accessed will hang your computer==
 
 
I don't have this problem on my T40p. CDROM is mounted and file on CD is opened. Change speed do '''not''' hang my system.
 
 
-- Stefan Schmidt
 
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An open file looks fine if you're not reading/writing at that point. But my T43 does hangs on this:
 
# dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/null &
 
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/cdrom_speed
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 16:41, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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OK, sorry. I was to fast. My system hangs on this commands, too. :(
 
 
-- Stefan Schmidt
 
 
Works well. Great.
 
 
T42 2373-8zh. Working :cdrom_speed and start_charge_thresh. Untest : inhibit_charge_minutes.
 
 
-- Haifeng Chen
 
 
cdrom_speed works on my T40.
 
 
-- [[User:Lammic|lammic]], 2005.12.09
 
 
== "thinkpad" module kernel compatibility ==
 
 
Ajunge, how do you compile the "thinkpad" module compile on kernel >=2.6.9? The latest thinkpad version (5.8) still uses "get_cpu_ptr" and "set_cpu_ptr", which were removed in 2.6.9.
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 13:53, 10 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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== Kernel Patch? ==
 
 
Hello Thinker,
 
 
would it be possible to provide the SMAPI support as kernel patch as well? Something along the lines of: (0.12 against 2.6.15-rc5)
 
 
''(deleted, see below for how to create a patch file)''
 
 
Deleted the tp_smapi.c file at the end, out of obvious reasons, and I'm not sure about the placement in the ACPI section, OTOH there it would be found easily next to ibm_acpi.
 
 
Providing a patch would help when recompiling the kernel often, I hate recompiling external modules every time (even got me a kernel-upgrade script to do most of it automatically). But of course it's up to you. :)
 
 
--[[User:Spiney|spiney]] 09:52, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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I'll be glad to add this, but I don't want to go through additional manual steps in the release process (there are already quite a few). Can you add a "make patch" functionality to the Makefile, or something of the sort, to automatically generate a full patch (including tp_smapi.c) against current kernel sources?
 
 
Also, this shouldn't be under drivers/acpi, since it doesn't use ACPI at all (that's why I didn't make it a patch to ibm_acpi). I think the right place is drivers/firmware, like the dell_rbu driver for Dell laptops.
 
 
BTW, the convention for kernel patches is to start them once level higher:
 
  diff -Nurp kernel-2.6.14-vanilla kernel-2.6.14-patched
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 17:12, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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Of course it's from the wrong level, as usual I was just lazy/inattentive. And at one point I'll remember who likes what patch format, promise. ;)
 
 
A patch target as in "create a new file holding a correct diff to current kernel source" would be rather difficult, since line numbers might change etc., but applying the patch should be straighforward with a bit of sed. Of course I could just do that, create a patch with the diff command and then apply the new patch file in reverse. ;)
 
 
--[[User:Spiney|spiney]] 18:36, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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If it does that on a local copy (no changes the original kernel tree) and cleans up after itself, that's fine with me. :-)
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 18:50, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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Ok, here's a shell script that creates the patch, feel free to use it under the terms of the GPL. For example call it from your Makefile with the patch target: (I didn't want to put all the script into the Makefile, since the rules about escaping in Makefiles, well, escape me ;)
 
 
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#!/bin/bash
 
 
KDIR=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
 
FDIR=drivers/firmware
 
OPWD=$(pwd)
 
 
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
 
cd $TMPDIR
 
 
mkdir -p a/$FDIR
 
cp $KDIR/$FDIR/{Kconfig,Makefile} a/$FDIR
 
cp -r a b
 
sed -i -e '/endmenu/i\
 
config IBM_SMAPI\
 
        tristate "IBM ThinkPad SMAPI Support"\
 
        depends on X86\
 
        ---help---\
 
        This adds SMAPI support on IBM ThinkPads, mostly used for battery\
 
        charge control. For more information about this driver see\
 
        <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/SMAPI_support_for_Linux> .\
 
\
 
        If you have an IBM ThinkPad laptop, say Y or M here.\
 
' b/$FDIR/Kconfig
 
sed -i -e '$a\
 
obj-$(CONFIG_IBM_SMAPI)            += tp_smapi.o' b/$FDIR/Makefile
 
cp $OPWD/tp_smapi.c b/$FDIR
 
diff -Nurp a b > $OPWD/tp_smapi-$(uname -r).patch
 
rm -r a b
 
cd $OPWD
 
</pre>
 
 
BTW, [http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ GeSHi]-based syntax-highlighting would be great...
 
 
--[[User:Spiney|spiney]] 19:28, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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Ah, neat sed foo. How about [http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/tmp/Makefile this] escapade, then?
 
 
What's the sed spell needed to replace the Makefile's
 
VER  := 0.13
 
with auto-parsing of
 
#define TP_VERSION "0.13"
 
from tp_smapi.c?
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 20:37, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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Hmm, something like
 
VERFROMC=$(sed -ne 's/^#define TP_VERSION "\(.*\)"/\1/gp' tp_smapi.c)
 
sed -i -e "s/^VER := .*$/VER := $VERFROMC/" Makefile
 
should do (untested, from the top of my head, maybe the temporary variable isn't even necessary?). And neat Makefile wizardry, at one point I'll learn the syntax.
 
 
--[[User:Spiney|spiney]] 20:44, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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Makefile escaping is horrible, keep avoiding it... Anyway, the updated [http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/tmp/Makefile make patch] seems to do the right thing.
 
 
--[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 21:36, 16 Dec 2005 (CET)
 
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