Re: [PATCH v2] power: supply: bq27xxx: Divide the reg cache to each register

[Hermes Zhang <chenhuiz@axis.com>]

On 2024/4/1 21:15, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> [+cc Andrew Davis]
>
> Hello Hermes,
>
> Sorry for the delay. This arrived too close to the 6.9 merge window.
> I had a look now and while the patch looks fine to me on a conceptual
> level, it did not apply. It looks like you used a pre-2024 kernel tree
> to generate the patch against. Please always use something recent base
> tree (and ideally use git's --base option to document the used
> parent commit).

Ack.

> Other than that I just applied a series from Andrew, which cleans up
> the register caching in bq27xxx and removed most registers from the
> cache. That's something I did not consider earlier, since I thought
> the cache was introduced to fix a different issue. But that was
> apparently sbs-battery and not bq27xxx.
>
> Anyways, there is only two registers left in the cache now. I'm fine
> with having a per-register cache for them, if that is still needed
> to further reduce I2C traffic on your device.
>
> And... re-reading your problem description, I wonder if we need to
> reintroduce the caching for all registers (on a per register basis)
> to avoid userspace being able to do a denial of service by quickly
> polling the battery information.
>
> Any thoughts?

Great. Now I think I can drop my patch since the current code is almost 
same as we expected and still keep simple. Thanks for the latest info.


Best Regards,

Hermes