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power_supply: bump EC version check that we refuse to run with in olpc_battery

Refuse to run with an EC < 0x44.  We're playing it safe, and this is a pretty
old EC version.

Also, add a comment about why we're checking the EC version.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Andres Salomon 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 8 2
      drivers/power/olpc_battery.c

+ 8 - 2
drivers/power/olpc_battery.c

@@ -389,8 +389,14 @@ static int __init olpc_bat_init(void)
 
 	if (!olpc_platform_info.ecver)
 		return -ENXIO;
-	if (olpc_platform_info.ecver < 0x43) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "OLPC EC version 0x%02x too old for battery driver.\n", olpc_platform_info.ecver);
+
+	/*
+	 * We've seen a number of EC protocol changes; this driver requires
+	 * the latest EC protocol, supported by 0x44 and above.
+	 */
+	if (olpc_platform_info.ecver < 0x44) {
+		printk(KERN_NOTICE "OLPC EC version 0x%02x too old for "
+			"battery driver.\n", olpc_platform_info.ecver);
 		return -ENXIO;
 	}