Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:39:18 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Introduce usb charger framework to deal with the usb gadget power negotation |
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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:22:12PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:04:26AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
I see Felipe is no longer at TI so his e-mail was bouncing - let's resend this with his kernel.org address:
> > Currently the Linux kernel does not provide any standard integration of this > > feature that integrates the USB subsystem with the system power regulation > > provided by PMICs meaning that either vendors must add this in their kernels > > or USB gadget devices based on Linux (such as mobile phones) may not behave > > as they should. Thus provide a standard framework for doing this in kernel.
> So, the review of this seems to have ground to a bit of a halt - we're > really not seeing any engagement or comments here, people aren't raising > any problems or suggesting alternative approaches but this isn't moving > forwards either. This means that nothing running mainline that isn't > totally offloaded to hardware can charge at even 500mA, let alone more, > which seems like a failure to me. What do we need to move this > forwards?
> If there are concerns around ABI we could either make sure it's as basic > as possible (so that it'll be easy to maintain compatibility if we think > of something better) or just hide things from userspace so that we just > have the in kernel implementation.
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