Re2: [ltp] battery balancing on Ivy Bridge laptops

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013, Tamas Papp wrote:
> For now, I ended up implementing a small script that gets run by cron
> and displays a message when the ultrabay battery goes below 30%, so I
> can remove it manually.  That appears to be the only way to prevent it
> from discharging first to some insanely low level (near 3-5%).

You might be able to "software eject" the battery to force the other one to
discharge.  This works on the IBM-class ECs, so it might work on the newest
Lenovo ones as well.

The software ejection can be done using the proper node in sysfs through the
dock/bay driver.

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