Re: [PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: connector: add fixed-batteries property

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Hi Krzysztof,

On 3/13/25 1:48 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 04:42:01PM -0700, Amit Sunil Dhamne wrote:
Add a new "fixed-batteries" DT property to connector class. This
property is populated with nodes associated with battery type power
supplies powering the USB PD connector. This is needed by the Type-C
Port Manager (TCPM) to query psy properties which are used to feed
What is "psy" in terms of bindings?
In terms of bindings this should be a phandle to a device that owns/manages the battery (whose driver will eventually call devm_power_supply_register to register the battery). This could be a fuel-guage ("sprd,sc2731-fgu", say), charger ("ti,bq24190") or a platform device ("cw2015") containing "monitored-battery" property to manage the simple battery.
Battery_Status & Battery_Capacity AMS.

Signed-off-by: Amit Sunil Dhamne <amitsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/connector/usb-connector.yaml | 8 ++++++++
  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/maxim,max33359.yaml      | 1 +
  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/connector/usb-connector.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/connector/usb-connector.yaml
index 11e40d225b9f3a0d0aeea7bf764f1c00a719d615..5e15bc060f5a2cfce842f83de738f1e8bae3ce2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/connector/usb-connector.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/connector/usb-connector.yaml
@@ -300,6 +300,14 @@ properties:
      $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint8-array
      maxItems: 4
+ fixed-batteries:
+    description: Contains references to nodes associated with battery type power
+      supplies powering the USB PD device. These batteries are fixed type and
What is a "battery type power supply"? If you just link here batteries,
then we have type for it - monitored-battery - but I doubt connector has
direct connection to the battery.
Regarding "nodes associated with battery type power supplies", I meant something like a fuel guage or a charger OR platform device with "monitored-battery" that will manage the battery lifecycle. If I use monitored-battery for this, I will be restricted to only querying 1 simple battery. Also, I don't mean PD connector device to be a fuel guage or charger that manages a specific battery. It should just be able to query any FG/Chg for the battery status to relay that info to the connector's port partner.

The intent of the patchset & this change is for the USB Type C protocol manager module (that consumes these bindings) to be able to get info (such as State of charge, design capacity, etc) from drivers that manage the battery/batteries in the system. In order for such info to propagate I need to hook up the references of these battery manager devices (fuel guages, etc.) to connector.

I have addressed the connector <-> battery question in the cover letter.


If you mean chargers, the OF graph is already there for this and no need
for this patch.

No I don't mean just chargers in this case. Also, I didn't follow you on the OF graph. Please can you explain further?



+      not hot swappable.
+    minItems: 1
+    maxItems: 4
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
+
  dependencies:
    sink-vdos-v1: [ sink-vdos ]
    sink-vdos: [ sink-vdos-v1 ]
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/maxim,max33359.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/maxim,max33359.yaml
index 3de4dc40b79192b60443421b557bd2fb18683bf7..66c99f0131f074f1c08e31d7481f555647e3b2f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/maxim,max33359.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/maxim,max33359.yaml
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ examples:
                                         PDO_FIXED(9000, 2000, 0)>;
                  sink-bc12-completion-time-ms = <500>;
                  pd-revision = /bits/ 8 <0x03 0x01 0x01 0x08>;
+                fixed-batteries = <&batt1 &batt2>;
Two phandles, so two <>.

Ack. Will fix it in the next revision.

Thanks,

Amit

Best regards,
Krzysztof





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