Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] usb: phy: Add USB charger support

[Manu Gautam <mgautam@codeaurora.org>]

Hi,


On 7/25/2017 1:30 PM, Baolin Wang wrote:
> This patch introduces the usb charger support based on usb phy that
> makes an enhancement to a power driver. The basic conception of the
> usb charger is that, when one usb charger is added or removed by
> reporting from the extcon device state change, the usb charger will
> report to power user to set the current limitation.
>
> Power user can register a notifiee on the usb phy by issuing
> usb_register_notifier() to get notified by charger status changes
> or charger current changes.

Why can't we use power_supply framework for this?
Power user can register usb power_supply and USB PHY driver
can update charging current using - power_supply_set_property().



> we can notify what current to be drawn to power user according to
> different charger type, and now we have 2 methods to get charger type.
> One is get charger type from extcon subsystem, which also means the
> charger state changes. Another is we can get the charger type from
> USB controller detecting or PMIC detecting, and the charger state
> changes should be told by issuing usb_phy_set_charger_state().
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/phy/phy.c   |  272 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/usb/phy.h |   49 +++++++++

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