Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: rtc: add battery-low-hw-alarm property

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On 06/04/2019 01:07:13-0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 04:52:44PM +0200, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
> > Some RTC devices have a battery-low automatic detection circuit.
> > The battery-low event is usually reported with:
> > 
> > - a bit change in a RTC status register
> > - a hw signaling (generally using an interrupt generation), changing
> >   the hw level of a specific pin;
> > 
> > The new property "battery-low-hw-alarm" enable the RTC to generate the
> > hw signaling in case of battery-low event.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc.txt | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc.txt
> > index a97fc6a..f93a44d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc.txt
> > @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ below.
> >                              expressed in femto Farad (fF).
> >                              The default value shall be listed (if optional),
> >                              and likewise all valid values.
> > +- battery-low-hw-alarm :    Enable the "battery-low" output pin. This function
> > +                            is available on the following devices:
> > +                            - pcf2127 - pin used for alarm: INTn
> 
> Boolean? If there's cases where which pin is selectable, then we'd need 
> this to take a value. Not sure how likely that is?
> 

Indeed, there is at least the pcf85363 that has two possible pins for
that interrupt. How would you select the pin then? a zero based index? a
string?

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
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https://bootlin.com



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