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Message-ID: <20090815223434.GB27637@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:34:34 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <me@...ipebalbi.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smart Battery System Design (was: Re: Question about
	userspace-consumer)
On Sat 2009-08-15 17:43:24, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:32:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Please don't put basic fastcharge logic to userspace:
> 
> > * you still want to fastcharge at init=/bin/bash boot
> 
> > * you want to fastcharge while machine is in s2ram. See spitz. Doing
> >   that with userspace would be quite tricky.
> 
> Depending on the technologies involved and how well integrated the power
> path management is with the battery charger fast charge during suspend
> may not actually be desirable.  Some systems need or desire active
> thermal management of the system from the CPU during fast charge.
Do you have example of some system?
Ok, well... anyway many machines _want_ fastcharge while suspended,
and putting charging into userland would break them (or make that
fairly difficult).
									Pavel
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