linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] power: supply: add sbs-charger driver

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:39:46 +0530
From:   Manish Badarkhe <badarkhe.manish@...il.com>
To:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nicolas.saenz@...dys.net>
Cc:     sre@...nel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] power: supply: add sbs-charger driver

Hi Nicolas

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<nicolas.saenz@...dys.net> wrote:
> Hi Manish, thanks for the interest.
>
> On 20/12/16 17:54, Manish Badarkhe wrote:
>> Hi Nicola
>>
> [...]
>>
>> Just some general comment, Can you add some more properties here to
>> know voltage and current?
>
> I assume you are mentioning reading current and voltage values. These
> properties are not supported by the sbs-charger standard. All you can do
> is set (write only) the charging current and charging voltage values.
> Yet in all the boards I've worked with it's the sbs-battery compliant
> chip that takes care of it.

thanks for clarifying me.


>> Also, can you add other properties present in charging status register
>> like POWER_FAIL, VOLTAGE_OR,
>> CURRENT_OR etc.
>
> CURRENT_OR and VOLTAGE_OR relate to wrong values in the charging
> voltage/current registers. Since the sbs-battery chip takes care of it I
> don't see any use for it.
> POWER_FAIL marks there is not enough voltage to charge the battery. I
> don't need that information so I did nothing to integrate it. Having a
> quick look at the power supply defines I don't see were it could easily fit.

thanks for clarifying me.

Regards
Manish Badarkhe