From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Herring Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] dt-bindings: power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery: Addition of force_load binding Add device tree binding documentation for addition of force_load boolean value to allow loading a battery during boot even if not present at that time. Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:14:30 -0500 Message-ID: <20190816211430.GA8175@bogus> References: <1564037445-22936-1-git-send-email-rtresidd@electromag.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1564037445-22936-1-git-send-email-rtresidd@electromag.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Tresidder Cc: sre@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 02:50:45PM +0800, Richard Tresidder wrote: > Signed-off-by: Richard Tresidder > --- > > Notes: > Add device tree binding documentation for addition of force_load > boolean value to allow loading a battery during boot even if not > present at that time. > Accompanying patch to drivers/power/supply/sbs-battery.c submitted to linux-pm@vger.kernel.org > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt > index 4e78e51..187d7bb 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/sbs_sbs-battery.txt > @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ Optional properties : > after an external change notification. > - sbs,battery-detect-gpios : The gpio which signals battery detection and > a flag specifying its polarity. > - > + - sbs,force-load : Allow loading of a hot-pluggable battery when there is no > + GPIO detect available and the module is statically built. What's a module? That's Linux specific and nothing to do with the binding. Can't you just force load if sbs,battery-detect-gpios is not present? Rob