Comment 22 for bug 33950

Leann: I'm running hardy fully updated to this morning's packages and there's still no movement at all from hdaps.

While I can't attest to its quality, having never used it - the tp_smapi driver brings significantly more useful features than an improved hdaps driver, ie battery charge thresholds.
So anything that can get tp_smapi included is probably a good thing. It's not in the vanilla kernel though for some reason. Shem is the upstream author aiui - perhaps he/she/it can shed some light on the driver's status.