Re: [PATCH 1/1] dt-bindings: power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery: Addition of force_load binding Add device tree binding documentation for addition of force_load boolean value to allow loading a battery during boot even if not present at that time.

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 02:50:45PM +0800, Richard Tresidder wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Richard Tresidder <rtresidd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Add device tree binding documentation for addition of force_load
>     boolean value to allow loading a battery during boot even if not
>     present at that time.
>     Accompanying patch to drivers/power/supply/sbs-battery.c submitted to linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt
> index 4e78e51..187d7bb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt
> @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ Optional properties :
>     after an external change notification.
>   - sbs,battery-detect-gpios : The gpio which signals battery detection and
>     a flag specifying its polarity.
> -
> + - sbs,force-load : Allow loading of a hot-pluggable battery when there is no
> +   GPIO detect available and the module is statically built.

What's a module? That's Linux specific and nothing to do with the 
binding. 

Can't you just force load if sbs,battery-detect-gpios is not present?

Rob