Re: [GIT PULL] power_supply: add power supply scope

[Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:41:37PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ac.c b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> index 6512b20..ec36c82 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ac.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ static int get_ac_property(struct power_supply *psy,
>  	case POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_ONLINE:
>  		val->intval = ac->state;
>  		break;
> +	case POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_SCOPE:
> +		val->intval = POWER_SUPPLY_SCOPE_SYSTEM;
> +		break;
>  	default:
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}

Mm... how about the rest of the drivers? I.e. drivers/power/*battery.c?

I think it's not a great idea to patch every driver, would be better to make
it similar to how we handle power_supply.type (w/ default value 'SYSTEM').


But, thinking more about it... personally, from the ABI point of view, I'd
like to just see some kind of 'supplicants' directory in the power_supply
instances, with symlinks to an appropriate devices.

I.e.
/sys/class/power_supply/battery/supplicants/<device_name>
is a symlink to /sys/class/HID/.../device.

With a special meaning of an empty directory (or non-existent, or w/ a
symlink pointing to '/sys/devices/system') -- system power.

That way we may describe any possible power hierarchy.

>From the implementation point of view, for now power_supply may just
conditionally (by introducing power_supply.not_system_power flag)
expose power_supply.dev->parent to /sys/.../supplicants.

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com