[PATCH] power/ds2760_battery: document ABI change

[Daniel Mack]

Add some documentation for the newly added writeable properties.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
---
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:56:24PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:49:52PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > This patch adds support for writeable power supply properties and
> > exposes them as writeable to sysfs.
> 
> Please properly document this in Documentation/ABI as you are changing
> the userspace ABI.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Is something like the following appropriate?


 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f46ad66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+What:		/sys/class/power/ds2760-battery.*/charge_now
+Date:		May 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.35
+Contact:	Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
+Description:
+		This file is writeable and can be used to set the current
+		coloumb counter value inside the battery monitor chip. This
+		is needed for unavoidable corrections of aging batteries.
+		A userspace daemon can monitor the battery charging logic
+		and once the counter drops out of considerable bounds, take
+		appropriate action.
+
+What:		/sys/class/power/ds2760-battery.*/charge_full
+Date:		May 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.35
+Contact:	Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
+Description:
+		This file is writeable and can be used to set the assumed
+		battery 'full level'. As batteries age, this value has to be
+		amended over time.
+
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1.7.1
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