ACPI battery: only refresh the sysfs files when pertinent information changes

commit c597145696 upstream.

We only need to regenerate the sysfs files when the capacity units
change, avoid the update otherwise.

The origin of this issue is dates way back to 2.6.38:
da8aeb92d4
(ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume)

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Andy Whitcroft
2012-05-03 14:48:26 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 284cbb4317
commit b8d3d5a553

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@@ -635,11 +635,19 @@ static int acpi_battery_update(struct acpi_battery *battery)
static void acpi_battery_refresh(struct acpi_battery *battery)
{
int power_unit;
if (!battery->bat.dev)
return;
power_unit = battery->power_unit;
acpi_battery_get_info(battery);
/* The battery may have changed its reporting units. */
if (power_unit == battery->power_unit)
return;
/* The battery has changed its reporting units. */
sysfs_remove_battery(battery);
sysfs_add_battery(battery);
}