linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm: tegra: Add power-supplies link between battery and charger

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Message-ID: <51B8B3EF.40209@nvidia.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:46:23 -0400
From:	Rhyland Klein <rklein@...dia.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
CC:	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm: tegra: Add power-supplies link between battery
 and charger

On 6/12/2013 1:44 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 03:26 PM, Rhyland Klein wrote:
>> The power supply core now supports detecting linkages between batteries
>> and chargers through the use of the power-supplies property. Adding
>> this to the battery, the core will use the phandle list to find
>> the associated charger and pair them up. This facilitates notifications
>> from the charger to the battery when ac power is dissconnected
>> or connected for instance.
> 
> Rhyland, if I apply this patch without patches 1-3 being in the same
> branch, will it cause any bugs? If so, I guess 1-3 should go through the
> drivers/power maintainer for 3.11, and I should defer this patch to 3.12?
> 

No, this alone shouldn't cause a problem. Patches 2 & 3 enable the
support for using the power-supplies property in the charger and battery
drivers. Without them, this property will just be ignored for now.

--rhyland

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