Messages in this thread | | | From | Liam Breck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 01/18] dt-bindings: power: battery: add constant-charge-current property | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:46:46 -0800 |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:40:55 +0100 Quentin Schulz wrote: > This adds the constant-charge-current property to the list of optional > properties of the battery. > > The constant charge current is critical for batteries as they can't > handle all charge currents. > > Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com> > --- > > added in v3 > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/battery.txt | 2 ++
Is constant-charge-current dependent on the battery (e.g. capacity, nominal voltage, etc) or the system (charger chip, input current/voltage, etc)?
It belongs in Doc.../power/supply/battery.txt if it's a characteristic of the battery.
Note, this page asserts that constant-current charging applies to NiMH batteries: http://power-topics.blogspot.com/2016/05/constant-voltage-constant-current.html
Related properties to be added to battery.txt near-future in a patchset for the BQ24190 charger are as follows. These are not currently in enum power_supply_property, so the actual names are still to be decided.
precharge-current-microamp: maximum charge current during precharge phase (typically 20% of battery capacity)
termination-current-microamp (or endcharge-current): a charge cycle terminates when the battery voltage is above recharge threshold, and the current is below this setting (typically 10% of battery capacity)
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