[ltp] tp_smapi 0.09 (dual battery, extended status support)

[Paul RIVIER]

Shem Multinymous wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A new version of ThinkPad SMAPI support for Linux:
>
>https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1212&package_id=171579
>
>0.09  2005-12-12
>----------------
>- Dual-battery support: moved all battery-related sysfs files to
>  /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*
>  and made the 2nd battery accessible via
>  /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT1/*
>  
>
Hi,
thank you for this work.
On my T42, I have 2 batteries, the normal one plus the ultrabay one. 
Considering that the default (hardware ?) policy is to completely 
discharge the ultrabay first then the normal battery, my ltrabay battery 
is totaly discharged very often. As discussed many times on this forums, 
that arms it and it's lifetime went from 25Wh to 19 Wh in 4 months.

That is why I tried to find a way to switch the normal battery to power 
the laptop as soon as the ultrabay runs short, lets say 10% remaining. 
As I never need the full battery life (more than 5h now thanks to 
lowering voltages), this policy would prevent both batteries from 
getting totaly empty.

Can SMAPI give me this choice ?

Thank you


Paul