Re: [PATCH 2/2] power: supply: core: Add SiLION battery technology

[Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 04:42:41PM +0530, Rakesh Kota wrote:
> Add support for lithium-ion-silicon-anode (SiLION) battery technology
> to enable proper identification of devices using this newer battery
> chemistry. Without this change, such batteries would report as
> unknown technology.
> 
> Introduce POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_SiLION and update technology
> mappings across core, sysfs, and test interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Kota <rakesh.kota@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---

The change itself looks good to me, but it must be submitted with a
user (e.g. an update to the qcom_battmgr) as a follow-up patch.

Greetings,

-- Sebastian

>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power | 2 +-
>  drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c    | 2 ++
>  drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c   | 1 +
>  drivers/power/supply/test_power.c           | 3 ++-
>  include/linux/power_supply.h                | 1 +
>  5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
> index 4b21d5d2325136be65126d4d1d6e64608280fe44..1f42e6f138ea8ae0fe8c232c38d0ff6fb20180e7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
> @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ Description:
>  
>  		Valid values:
>  			      "Unknown", "NiMH", "Li-ion", "Li-poly", "LiFe",
> -			      "NiCd", "LiMn"
> +			      "NiCd", "LiMn", "Si-Li-ion"
>  
>  
>  What:		/sys/class/power_supply/<supply_name>/voltage_avg,
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
> index 9a28381e2607d650fa9b719b683af375bb118fad..385ab8aa7e69f3f804e7ac0ee3782446f18e2c3f 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
> @@ -677,6 +677,8 @@ int power_supply_get_battery_info(struct power_supply *psy,
>  			info->technology = POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiFe;
>  		else if (!strcmp("lithium-ion-manganese-oxide", value))
>  			info->technology = POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiMn;
> +		else if (!strcmp("lithium-ion-silicon-anode", value))
> +			info->technology = POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_SiLION;
>  		else
>  			dev_warn(&psy->dev, "%s unknown battery type\n", value);
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
> index 198405f7126f96a57a549cd1ecb9b71089b9c3d0..f2a5ec519b2ef60fb5ede101ca461d899218e186 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
> @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static const char * const POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_TEXT[] = {
>  	[POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiFe]		= "LiFe",
>  	[POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_NiCd]		= "NiCd",
>  	[POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiMn]		= "LiMn",
> +	[POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_SiLION]	= "Si-Li-ion",
>  };
>  
>  static const char * const POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_TEXT[] = {
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/test_power.c b/drivers/power/supply/test_power.c
> index 2c0e9ad820c0db23165758303a16bddac1a1634b..64bd4a1147ca06566a909513a80760ad707a8605 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/test_power.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/test_power.c
> @@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ static struct battery_property_map map_technology[] = {
>  	{ POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiFe, "LiFe" },
>  	{ POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_NiCd, "NiCd" },
>  	{ POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiMn, "LiMn" },
> +	{ POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_SiLION, "SiLION" },
>  	{ -1,				NULL   },
>  };
>  
> @@ -733,7 +734,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(battery_present,
>  
>  module_param(battery_technology, battery_technology, 0644);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(battery_technology,
> -	"battery technology <NiMH|LION|LIPO|LiFe|NiCd|LiMn>");
> +	"battery technology <NiMH|LION|LIPO|LiFe|NiCd|LiMn|SiLION>");
>  
>  module_param(battery_health, battery_health, 0644);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(battery_health,
> diff --git a/include/linux/power_supply.h b/include/linux/power_supply.h
> index 360ffdf272dab86241f1aac4650d1a91a088a84b..04996037219d5a22d2b2a7f136e5d3565a4507ca 100644
> --- a/include/linux/power_supply.h
> +++ b/include/linux/power_supply.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ enum {
>  	POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiFe,
>  	POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_NiCd,
>  	POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_LiMn,
> +	POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_SiLION,
>  };
>  
>  enum {
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>