linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v2] power_supply: Added support for power supply attribute sources

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Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2012 06:42:43 +0000
From:	"Pallala, Ramakrishna" <ramakrishna.pallala@...el.com>
To:	"Pallala, Ramakrishna" <ramakrishna.pallala@...el.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] power_supply: Added support for power supply
 attribute sources

Hi Anton,

> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:47:24PM +0530, Ramakrishna Pallala wrote:
> > > On some platforms one driver(or HW chip) may not be able to provide
> > > all the necessary attributes of the power supply connected to the
> > > platform or may provide very limited info which can be used by
> > > core/primary
> > drivers.
> > >
> > > For example a temperature sensor chip placed near the battery can be
> > > used to report battery ambient temperature but it does not makes
> > > sense to register sensor driver with power supply class. Or even a
> > > ADC driver or platform driver may report power supply properties
> > > like voltage/current or charging status but registering all those
> > > driver with power supply class is not a practical or ideal approach.
> > >
> > > This patch adds the generic support to register the drivers as power
> > > supply attribute(properties) sources and adds an interface to read
> > > these attributes from power supply class drivers.
> > >
> > > If there are multiple attribute sources of the same type then caller
> > > has to do source selection by passing the source string in the query struct.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Pallala <ramakrishna.pallala@...el.com>
> > > ---
> > [...]
> > > +extern int power_supply_attributes_register(struct device *parent,
> > > +				struct power_supply_attr_source *psy_attr);
> >
> > Can you please show some user of the new calls? If I understand
> > correctly, you're going to call these from sensing (ADC, or some
> > other) drivers, which would be very very wrong thing to do.
> 
> I have submitted two patches, one on smb347_charger driver and one on
> max17042_battery driver to demonstrate the use of these API's.
> 
> [PATCH] smb347_charger: Add support for battery power supply attributes
> registration [PATCH] max17042_battery: add support for battery STATUS and
> CHARGE_TYPE
> 
> Please review and let me know your comments.

I haven't received any inputs from you yet.
Can I assume these changes going to be merged?

Thanks,
Ram