Hi,
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 04:04:25PM -0700, Jonathan Bakker wrote:
> Charger-manager is a virtual driver for unifying chargers, fuel gauges,
> extcon devices, and a thermal device into a battery management system.
>
> Unfortunately, it has been broken since commit 830ae442202e ("extcon:
> Remove the deprecated extcon functions") when the extcon internal API
> was changed but some drivers were not updated. Additionally, it had
> some race conditions and was unnecessarily complex.
>
> A number of these patches come from a Tizen git tree(1); they have been
> rebased and the commit messages cleaned up.
>
> These changes have been tested on a couple of first-gen Galaxy S devices
> based on s5pv210 with a modified max8998 driver so that a charger
> regulator is exposed. In addition to the max8998, this hardware has
> a max17040 fuel gauge, fsa9480 extcon, and a generic thermal resistor
> for temperature sensing.
>
> 1) https://git.tizen.org/cgit/platform/kernel/linux-exynos/log/drivers/power/charger-manager.c?h=tizen_5.0
Thanks, queued. I hope this does not trigger more people to use it.
We really need a proper core feature for this.
-- Sebastian
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