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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt | 33 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/regulator/regulator.txt | 5 |
5 files changed, 47 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt b/Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt index c6cd4956047..9f16c5178b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt @@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ STATUS - this attribute represents operating status (charging, full, discharging (i.e. powering a load), etc.). This corresponds to BATTERY_STATUS_* values, as defined in battery.h. +CHARGE_TYPE - batteries can typically charge at different rates. +This defines trickle and fast charges. For batteries that +are already charged or discharging, 'n/a' can be displayed (or +'unknown', if the status is not known). + HEALTH - represents health of the battery, values corresponds to POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH_*, defined in battery.h. @@ -108,6 +113,8 @@ relative, time-based measurements. ENERGY_FULL, ENERGY_EMPTY - same as above but for energy. CAPACITY - capacity in percents. +CAPACITY_LEVEL - capacity level. This corresponds to +POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_*. TEMP - temperature of the power supply. TEMP_AMBIENT - ambient temperature. diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f9b56b72b78 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Regulator API design notes +========================== + +This document provides a brief, partially structured, overview of some +of the design considerations which impact the regulator API design. + +Safety +------ + + - Errors in regulator configuration can have very serious consequences + for the system, potentially including lasting hardware damage. + - It is not possible to automatically determine the power confugration + of the system - software-equivalent variants of the same chip may + have different power requirments, and not all components with power + requirements are visible to software. + + => The API should make no changes to the hardware state unless it has + specific knowledge that these changes are safe to do perform on + this particular system. + +Consumer use cases +------------------ + + - The overwhelming majority of devices in a system will have no + requirement to do any runtime configuration of their power beyond + being able to turn it on or off. + + - Many of the power supplies in the system will be shared between many + different consumers. + + => The consumer API should be structured so that these use cases are + very easy to handle and so that consumers will work with shared + supplies without any additional effort. diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt index ce3487d99ab..63728fed620 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static struct platform_device regulator_devices[] = { }, }; /* register regulator 1 device */ -platform_device_register(&wm8350_regulator_devices[0]); +platform_device_register(®ulator_devices[0]); /* register regulator 2 device */ -platform_device_register(&wm8350_regulator_devices[1]); +platform_device_register(®ulator_devices[1]); diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt index 0cded696ca0..ffd185bb605 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Some terms used in this document:- o PMIC - Power Management IC. An IC that contains numerous regulators - and often contains other susbsystems. + and often contains other subsystems. o Consumer - Electronic device that is supplied power by a regulator. @@ -168,4 +168,4 @@ relevant to non SoC devices and is split into the following four interfaces:- userspace via sysfs. This could be used to help monitor device power consumption and status. - See Documentation/ABI/testing/regulator-sysfs.txt + See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/regulator.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/regulator.txt index 4200accb9bb..3f8b528f237 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/regulator.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/regulator.txt @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ Registration Drivers can register a regulator by calling :- -struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct device *dev, - struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc); +struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc, + struct device *dev, struct regulator_init_data *init_data, + void *driver_data); This will register the regulators capabilities and operations to the regulator core. |