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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fr, 27 Mai 2011, Boris Dolgov wrote:
> On Windows, there is a special tool called "Vaio battery care" to
> prevent battery from charging when it reaches some level.
> 
> Is it possible to make this on Linux using acpi_call module? If so,
> then what is the name of this call?

There are some ACPI calls of which we have no idea about the semantics.
You can enable debugging and special acpi calls in sony-laptop-zseries
modules and play around. If you find something out that would be great!

Best wishes

Norbert
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