From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rhyland Klein Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/3] power: power_supply: Add core support for supplied_nodes Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:32:35 -0500 Message-ID: <5134DAB3.5000604@nvidia.com> References: <1361488272-21010-1-git-send-email-rklein@nvidia.com> <1361488272-21010-3-git-send-email-rklein@nvidia.com> <5127D083.6020308@wwwdotorg.org> <5127EA13.9010403@nvidia.com> <512FB473.8060309@nvidia.com> <20130302224832.GA16720@lizard.sbx05280.losalca.wayport.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130302224832.GA16720-SAfYLu58TvsKrcn4e17nTyIbA2bwYUBrKwcig+XE9tjR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Stephen Warren , David Woodhouse , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 3/2/2013 5:48 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:48:03PM -0500, Rhyland Klein wrote: > [...] >> Anton, David, would you be adverse to the changing of supplied_to >> from being a >> list of batteries stored in a charger to being a list of chargers >> stored in batteries? > I wonder if we can support both ways?.. > > Thanks, > Anton Well, the interesting factor becomes either we end up with 2 arrays (supplied_to, supplied_from) or we make 1 array (horray, save space!) but need to then either have a flag or use the power_supply type to know how to interpret the single array (as supplied_to or supplied_from). Adding in the second array and adds a char ** and an int, which doesn't seem like as much overhead as trying to figure out how to interpret the single array so I am inclined to stick with 2 arrays. -rhyland -- nvpublic