Hello Ramakrishna, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:47:24PM +0530, Ramakrishna Pallala wrote: > On some platforms one driver(or HW chip) may not be able to provide all > the necessary attributes of the power supply connected to the platform or > may provide very limited info which can be used by core/primary drivers. > > For example a temperature sensor chip placed near the battery can be used > to report battery ambient temperature but it does not makes sense to register > sensor driver with power supply class. Or even a ADC driver or platform > driver may report power supply properties like voltage/current or charging > status but registering all those driver with power supply class is not a > practical or ideal approach. > > This patch adds the generic support to register the drivers as power > supply attribute(properties) sources and adds an interface to read > these attributes from power supply class drivers. > > If there are multiple attribute sources of the same type then caller has > to do source selection by passing the source string in the query struct. > > Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Pallala <ramakrishna.pall...@intel.com> > --- [...] > +extern int power_supply_attributes_register(struct device *parent, > + struct power_supply_attr_source *psy_attr);
Can you please show some user of the new calls? If I understand correctly, you're going to call these from sensing (ADC, or some other) drivers, which would be very very wrong thing to do. Thanks, -- Anton Vorontsov Email: cbouatmai...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
