Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:52 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: 
> 2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>:
> > The Lenovo power monitor on the XP side of my dual-boot laptop
> > recommends not starting the charge cycle until the charge drops to 80%.
> > I've been considering filing an RFE for the GNOME power manager applet
> > to make that a user-settable parameter.
> 
> We'd need kernel support first...

OK What's the best way to request that?  Would it get generated as a
consequence of the power manager RFE?  Or should I file it separately?
Anything special about kernel feature requests?
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                Matthew Saltzman

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