On Thursday 13 September 2012, Rajanikanth HV wrote:
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 09:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:> >
If this is true, I don't understand what makes the 'supplied-to' properties you list in the device tree binding board specific. Are they not always done the same way? If so, you could just leave them out.
Precisely 'supplied-to' is not board specific, it was maintained as platform_data which i migrated to dt-node. It is meant to establish dependency across bm drivers based on power_supply property and runtime battery attributes. Basically, 'supplied-to' provides a way of exporting change in power_supply_property and runtime batter characteristics so that other bm devs shall make use or refer the updated values. Ref: external_power_changed(...) call back api. Note: all the bm drivers handles subset of power_supply property and battery attributes, ref: include/linux/power_supply.h and get_property(...) call back api across bm drivers.
Ok, so you want to just remove the property from the device tree, or do you want to establish a different method to specify these connections?
What does indeed seem to be needed is a place to identify the battery type, but it's not clear if the btemp device is the best place for that (maybe it is).
I am not clear whether you are trying to correlate battery-type with supplied-to. however, battery type is identified based on the resistance value measured at batctrl pin which is expected to be in the allowable limit of ab8500 device. This resistance limit varies across battery types. This happens in btemp driver.
I wasn't correlating them. I just mentioned that unlike the supplied-to property, the battery type property does seem to belong into the device tree.
For this, I would suggest you give a list of
possible batteries and require a property such as
st-ericsson,battery-type: A string identifier for the type of battery, which impacts how an operating system interpret the sensor readings. Possible values include:
- "none" -- no battery connected
- "li-ion-9100" -- Type 9100 Li-ION battery
<add any others that apply here>
Can do this, not precisely as "st-ericsson,battery-type", it will be as battery-type = [unknown|NiMH|LION|...|]], reason being allowable battery type is based on technology, as you can see the possible types as: POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_UNKNOWN = 0, POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_NiMH, POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LION, POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LIPO, POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiFe, POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_NiCd, POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiMn Ref: include/linux/power_supply.h Note: doing this will impact my of_probe(...), may slightly bloat the code.
Ok.
If you want to make the battery type a generic property, it's probably best to start a separate binding document for this in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power-supply/common.txt and document a string for each of these.
If we expect the property to be needed only for ab8500, please use a vendor prefix like 'stericsson,'.
Arnd