Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm: tegra: Add power-supplies link between batteryand charger

From: Rhyland Klein
Date: Wed Jun 12 2013 - 13:46:32 EST


On 6/12/2013 1:44 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 03:26 PM, Rhyland Klein wrote:
>> The power supply core now supports detecting linkages between batteries
>> and chargers through the use of the power-supplies property. Adding
>> this to the battery, the core will use the phandle list to find
>> the associated charger and pair them up. This facilitates notifications
>> from the charger to the battery when ac power is dissconnected
>> or connected for instance.
>
> Rhyland, if I apply this patch without patches 1-3 being in the same
> branch, will it cause any bugs? If so, I guess 1-3 should go through the
> drivers/power maintainer for 3.11, and I should defer this patch to 3.12?
>

No, this alone shouldn't cause a problem. Patches 2 & 3 enable the
support for using the power-supplies property in the charger and battery
drivers. Without them, this property will just be ignored for now.

--rhyland

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