Re: [Patch V2] drivers: power: Add support for bq24735 charger

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On 9/23/2013 6:05 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 04:01 PM, Rhyland Klein wrote:
>> On 9/23/2013 5:53 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 09/19/2013 10:18 AM, Rhyland Klein wrote:
>>>> Adding driver support for bq24735 charger chipset.
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/ti,bq24735.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/ti,bq24735.txt
> 
>>>> + - ti,charge-current : Used to control and set the charging current. This value
>>>> +   must follow the below guidelines:
>>>> +	bit 0 - 5:	Not used
>>>> +	bit 6:		1 = Adds 64mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 7:		1 = Adds 128mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 8:		1 = Adds 256mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 9:		1 = Adds 512mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 10:		1 = Adds 1024mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 11:		1 = Adds 2048mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 12:		1 = Adds 4096mA of charger current
>>>> +	bit 13 - 15:	Not used
>>>
>>> That's a little odd. Why not just put the number of mA directly into the
>>> property unshifted?
>>
>> This is how the hw register is defined, its the literal number of mA.
>> This is cleaned up in the upcoming revision.
> 
> OK. If you still want to use the raw register encoding, which seems
> reasonable, why not just say:
> 
> ti,charge-current: Value for charge current register as described in the
> HW documentation.

I had written this for v3:

- ti,charge-current : Used to control and set the charging current. This
value must be between 128mA and 8.128A with a 64mA step resolution. The
POR value is 0x0000h. See spec for more details.

Do you think the range is unnecessary or is it fine?

> 
>>>> +   Setting the value to < 128mA or > 8.128A terminates charging.
>>>
>>> "terminates charging" is a driver action, not a description of HW. It's
>>> fine to say that what min/max value should be specified in the property
>>> for it to be valid, but not what action SW should take in response to that.
>>
>> This isn't sw. This is defined in the HW documentation as to what
>> happens if an invalid value is used.
> 
> OK, if the HW documentation already says that, I don't see the need for
> the DT binding to also say it; I would suggest just removing that text.
> 

Will remove in v3.

-rhyland


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