Revert "ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus GL502VSK and UX305LA"
Revert commit c68f0676 ("ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus GL502VSK and UX305LA") and commit 4446823e ("ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus UX360UA and UX410UAK"). On many many Asus products, the battery is sometimes reported as charging or discharging even when it is full and you are on AC power. This change quirked the kernel to avoid advertising the discharging state when this happens on 4 laptop models, under the belief that this was incorrect information. I presume it originates from user reports who are confused that their battery status icon says that it is discharging. However, the reported information is indeed correct, and the quirk approach taken is inadequate and more thought is needed first. Specifically: 1. It only quirks discharging state, not charging 2. There are so many different Asus products and DMI naming variants within those product families that behave this way; Linux could grow to quirk hundreds of products and still not even be close at "winning" this battle. 3. Asus previously clarified that this behaviour is intentional. The platform will periodically do a partial discharge/charge cycle when the battery is full, because this is one way to extend the lifetime of the battery (leaving a battery at 100% charge and unused will decrease its usable capacity over time). My understanding is that any decent consumer product will have this behaviour, but it appears that Asus is different in that they expose this info through ACPI. However, the behaviour seems correct. The ACPI spec does not suggest in that the platform should hide the truth. It lets you report that the battery is full of charge, and discharging, and with external power connected; and Asus does this. 4. In terms of not confusing the user, this seems like something that could/should be handled by userspace, which can also detect these same (accurate) conditions in the general case. Revert this quirk before it gets included in a release, while we look for better approaches. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> Acked-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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