Re: [PATCH v2] POWER: Add gpio charger driver

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:55:01PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> This patch adds a simple driver for chargers indicating their online status
>> through a GPIO pin.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
> 
> Hm. I'm getting older, it seems. Now can anybody remind me why
> pda_power.c doesn't work here? ;-)
> 
> This driver looks like a light-weigh version of pda_power, except
> that it can do GPIOs directly (instead of is_*_online() callbacks).
> 
> Can we instead improve pda_power? Like this:
> 
> 	if (!pdata->is_ac_online && pdata->ac_monitor_gpio)
> 		pdata->is_ac_online = pda_ac_monitor_gpio;
> 
> Should look quite cool, I think.
> 
> (Plus, we might get rid of ac/usb stuff in that driver, and 
> pass enum power_supply_type to the callbacks instead).
> 

Hi

Hm... I guess it can be, but on the other hand most platform bus chargers type
devices can be, because the pda_power driver is keep pretty generic with custom init,
status and exit callbacks.

- Lars