Re: [PATCH 0/8] mfd/power/phy: Add support for otg vbus detection via axp pmic

[Priit Laes <plaes-q/aMd4JkU83YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:37 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Here is a series which adds the beginning of power-supply support to
> the axp20x pmic code. My primary reason for working on this is to
> enable the use of the usb power-supply bits in the pmic to for vbus
> detection on boards which do not have a vbus-det gpio, and instead
> rely on the pmic for vbus detection.
> 
> After I had written most of the vbus power-supply driver code I
> became aware of Bruno Prémont's (in the CC) previous work on this
> our drivers are mostly the same, and I've borrowed some code from
> his driver to add support for min-volt / max-curr properties.

This is one of the reasons why we try to keep our Mainlining Effort
page up-to-date:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort


> 
> The big difference between our 2 drivers is that mine driver uses
> a devicetree child node / mfd cell per power-supply, so one for
> each of the usb-power, ac-power / battery-charger and rtc-backup-bat
> -charger
> bits.
> 
> Depending on the board each of those must be enabled / disabled 
> separately
> in devicetree as most boards do not use all 4. So in dt each one 
> needs its
> own child-node of the axp20x node. Another reason for using separate 
> child
> nodes for each is so that other devicetree nodes can have a power
> -supply
> property with a phandle referencing a node representing a single
> power-supply.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 

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