Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: supply: bq27xxx_battery: Notify about all battery changes

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:52:24PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2020-05-26 21:24:39, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> > On 5/25/20 10:11 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > All battery related data could be important for user-space.  For example
> > > time-to-full could be shown to user on the screen or health could be
> > > monitored for any issues.  Instead of comparing few selected old/new
> > > values, just check if anything changed in the cache.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > At least some value will change every time we poll the battery, are we
> > okay with having power_supply_changed() called every time?
> 
> I believe that's very bad idea. AFAICT that would wake up userspace every
> 5 seconds, eating power in unexpected way, and without easy ability of opting
> out. IOW a regression.

It won't be 5 seconds but poll_interval which is 360 seconds by default.
It can be 5 seconds if user-space changes this time or if user-space
keeps asking for get_property. In first case: user-space kind of decided
about it... In second: user-space is already woken-up since it polls get
properties.

However I understand that this is quite intrusive change and maybe in
such case user-space should just keep polling (if it wants all data to
be provided every n-seconds).

Best regards,
Krzysztof