Re: [PATCH] power_supply: Add driver for TWL4030/TPS65950 BCIcharger

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Thu Dec 10 2009 - 09:18:37 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:09:08PM +0200, Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
[...]
> > dedicated chargers are simple. You kick the charger detection according to
> > USB BC 1.x and if it returns true, you configure high current charging.
> > Host/Hub chargers are also simple, after kicking charger detection, you
> > enable Data pullups (e.g. SOFTCONN bit in musb's power register) and see if
> > the host sends a setup packet...
> >
> > the complicated part is passing the information of which configuration you
> > were enumerated with to the charger chip.
>
> Ok since it doesn't look like this will resolve soon, what about
> adding some DEVICE_ATTR for the time being and requiring userspace to
> write charge current here to start actual charging?

Works for me. Let's think of the kernel charging support as an
yet unimplemented feature.

Thanks,

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