Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] power: introduce Charger-Manager

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Tue Jan 03 2012 - 23:11:14 EST


On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 06:47:47PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote:
> Charger Manager provides in-kernel battery charger management that
> requires temperature monitoring during both normal and suspend-to-RAM states
> and where each battery may have multiple chargers attached and the userland
> wants to look at the aggregated information of the multiple chargers.
>
> Charger Manager is a platform_driver with power-supply-class entries.
> An instance of Charger Manager (a platform-device created with
> Charger-Manager) represents a battery with chargers. If there are multiple
> batteries with their own chargers acting independently in a system,
> the system may need multiple instances of Charger Manager.
> Multiple chargers (e.g., USB, wireless, and solar panels) may be included
> as pairs of a regulator and a power-supply-class
> per charger.
>
> Charger Manager glues multiple charger-related frameworks (regulators of
> chargers, power-supply-class from chargers and fuel-gauge, RTC,
> suspend-again, ...) together to provide aggregated information and
> transparent battery monitoring to userspace.
>
> For the discussions about the need for in-suspend monitoring, please
> refer to the discussions of suspend-again in PM:
> v1 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2011-April/031052.html
> v2 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2011-April/031111.html
> v3 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2011-May/031267.html
> v4 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2011-May/031357.html
> v5 (last, applied) https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2011-June/031561.html
>
> To see the usage example, please refer to:
> http://git.infradead.org/users/kmpark/linux-2.6-samsung/shortlog/refs/heads/charger-manager
> In this git branch, a test code for Exynos4-NURI is shown.
>
> This patch set supports initial Charger Manager driver.

Merged, thanks! I'm pretty excited, we have a full fledged charger
manager, yay! :-)

Please send all further improvements against these patches, or (better)
against battery-2.6.git tree: http://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git

Much thanks for your hard work! Also million thanks to reviewers!

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Anton Vorontsov
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