linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/rtc/rtc-palmas.c: rename charging dt property name

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Message-ID: <52051083.4070403@nvidia.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Aug 2013 21:23:39 +0530
From:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/rtc/rtc-palmas.c: rename charging dt property
 name

On Friday 09 August 2013 09:07 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>
>> Renaming the charging property names to have more meaningful:
>>
>> Renaming property "ti,back-battery-charge-enable" to "ti,backup-battery-chargeable"
>> to tells OS that attahced battery is chargeable and OS can do charging.
>>
>> Renaming property "ti,back-battery-charge-low-current" to
>> "ti,backup-battery-charge-high-current" for safe configuration as maximum charging current
>> of battery depends on battery type and overcurrent charging can damage the battery. So
>> enable the high current charging only if this property is available.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
>> ---
>> The patch V4 version of the change
>> [PATCH V4] drivers/rtc/rtc-palmas.c: support for backup battery charging
>> is already applied but still the discussion is going on the property name.
>>
>> To correct the property name, I am sending this patch on top of above patch
>> as per discussion on above patch.
>>
>> .../devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc-palmas.txt         |   21 +++++++++++--------
>> drivers/rtc/rtc-palmas.c                           |   14 ++++++------
>> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> Are you not concerned about any dts with the old property names being around such that the code should support the old name as well?
>

I introduced these properties on above patch and it applied yesterday 
only. Hence no one is using now. So no issue here.

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