Thinkpads / charging thresholds

[Ivan Mitev]

Hi,

Are there any plans to include the acpi-call kernel module [1] in the
upcoming R4 kernels ? It's required to set charging thresholds on
(relatively) newer Thinkpads, which seem to be used by many fellow Qubes
users and developers.

Except compiling/installing a custom kernel, the only "quick" way I've
found to set those thresholds is to shutdown Qubes and boot a small
distro with acpi-call (I've described that in an old post on power
consumption [2]). This method is obviously not convenient and needless
to say, not a good idea at all for security.

Or do other straightforward workarounds exist directly within Qubes/dom0 ?

Thanks - and as usual, kudos for the great work !
Ivan


[1] https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call
[2]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-devel/05MLJCOB1o4/AQt0gt6AAQAJ

[Andrew Morgan]

As a Thinkpad user who just bought a new battery after a year or so with
Qubes, I would also appreciate this :)

Andrew Morgan