Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 1/6] charger: max14577: Add support for MAX77836 charger

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

On śro, 2014-08-27 at 14:52 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
> > Add support for MAX77836 charger to the max14577 driver. The MAX77836
> > charger is almost the same as 14577 model except:
> >  - No dead-battery detection;
> >  - Support for special charger (like in MAX77693);
> >  - Support for DX over-voltage protection (like in MAX77693);
> >  - Lower values of charging current (two times lower current for
> >    slow/fast charge, much lower EOC current);
> >  - Slightly different values in ChgTyp field of STATUS2 register. On
> >    MAX14577 0x6 is reserved and 0x7 dead battery. On the MAX77836 the
> >    0x6 means special charger and 0x7 is reserved. Regardless of these
> >    differences the driver maps them to one enum max14577_muic_charger_type.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
> > Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
> > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton-9xeibp6oKSgdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> > Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
> > Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/power/Kconfig                |  4 +-
> >  drivers/power/max14577_charger.c     | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  include/linux/mfd/max14577-private.h | 54 ++++++++++++++++++-------
> 
> Not quite so important here, but better to break these out too.  We
> can arrange ourselves to that the set can go in together.  Just make
> sure it's bisectable.

Are you sure? This will result in a patch which adds some
code/symbols/defines used only by next (future) patch. Independent apply
of such patch still won't make any sense because there won't be any user
of this code.


Best regards,
Krzysztof