Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] power_supply: Add additional health properties to the header

Dan Murphy
2020-03-11T11:35:35Z

Sebastian

On 3/10/20 4:30 PM, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi Sandeep,
>
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 03:55:48PM -0800, Sandeep Patil wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:06:58AM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:50:37AM -0600, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>> Add HEALTH_WARM, HEALTH_COOL and HEALTH_HOT to the health enum.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Looks good. But I will not merge it without a user and have comments
>>> for the driver.
>> Android has been looking for these properties for a while now [1].
>> It was added[2] when we saw that the manufacturers were implementing these
>> properties in the driver. I didn't know the properties were absent upstream
>> until yesterday. Somebody pointed out in our ongoing effort to make sure
>> all core kernel changes that android depends on are present upstream.
>>
>> I think those values are also propagated in application facing APIs in
>> Android (but I am not sure yet, let me know if that's something you want
>> to find out).
>>
>> I wanted to chime in and present you a 'user' for this if that helps.
> With user I meant an upstream kernel driver, which exposes the
> values. But thanks for the pointer. This should be mentioned in
> the patch description, also the fact that the status values are
> directly taken from JEITA spec.

I mentioned the JEITA in the cover letter but I guess you would like the
description in the commit message as well

Dan