linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] power_supply: Add additional health properties to the header

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Message-ID: <6b947adc-a176-5fa0-1382-8b08ec3f8b09@ti.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:09:37 -0500
From:   Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
To:     Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>
CC:     <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] power_supply: Add additional health properties to
 the header

Hello

On 3/6/20 5:55 PM, Sandeep Patil wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:06:58AM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:50:37AM -0600, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>> Add HEALTH_WARM, HEALTH_COOL and HEALTH_HOT to the health enum.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
>>> ---
>> Looks good. But I will not merge it without a user and have comments
>> for the driver.
> Android has been looking for these properties for a while now [1].
> It was added[2] when we saw that the manufacturers were implementing these
> properties in the driver. I didn't know the properties were absent upstream
> until yesterday. Somebody pointed out in our ongoing effort to make sure
> all core kernel changes that android depends on are present upstream.
>
> I think those values are also propagated in application facing APIs in
> Android (but I am not sure yet, let me know if that's something you want
> to find out).
>
> I wanted to chime in and present you a 'user' for this if that helps.

We have re-submitted the BQ25150/155 driver that would be the user and 
we have 2 more for review that will use the new definitions

Dan