linrunner

Initial testing happened [here](https://thinkpad-forum.de/threads/tlp-stat-akkudaten-tester-mit-coreboot-libreboot-gesucht.238325/). **More tester are welcome!**

The whole thing depends on c--- submitting his kernel patches for the mainline kernel and getting them merged. Have you contacted him to see if he will?

> Only thresholds are working So what? This applies to all laptops supported so far. Only ThinkPads provide force-discharge.

10 years experience with ThinkPads shows that charge thresholds are a very support intensive topic. This is due to many technical peculiarities or firmware bugs of the different model series...

> and it is the responsibility of the driver to handle hardware/firmware peculiarities if it chooses to provide this interface. In theory yes, in practice the user space tool has...

If you write the driver yourself, you can also provide detailed information for whitelisting models and I suppose you would help with debugging and support here. That's a different situation....

That'll be difficult to whitelist properly. Let's see.

What's the state of your driver?

I see. I have not yet come to implement because it requires some basic changes. But it is still on my list.

@pobrn : with TLP 1.4 all the infrastructure to support new drivers is in place. What's your status?