Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:13:17 -0400 | From | "Richard A. Smith" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] power_supply: add a TRICKLE_CHARGING status, and add it to the olpc driver |
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Mark Brown wrote:
> The problem here is that anything which is already looking at these > statuses is going to have to be able to cope with the information too. > In the OLPC case it probably doesn't matter so much if they get > confused since this is an unusual case but in the embedded case it's > much more normal (and more likely to happen while a user interacts with > the device since that tends to burn power which is a problem if you're > charging off USB).
> A separate file with the detailed information would sidestep this since > it's a new interface. I'm not strongly opposed to adding the new states > but I do think it's worth considering other ways of doing this.
I've got no problems with a new interface. But, i'm also not the person writing the driver. :)
I can change my script to test for the presence of this new interface and use that if it exists rather easily. I already have to handle a few cases like that where Andres changed things when I wasn't watching.
Suggestions on what it would look like?
-- Richard Smith <richard@laptop.org> One Laptop Per Child
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