Re: [PATCHv1 03/19] power: supply: core: add manufacture date properties

[Emil Velikov]

On 2020/05/15, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 03:47:32PM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > On 2020/05/13, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > Some smart batteries store their manufacture date, which is
> > > useful to identify the battery and/or to know about the cell
> > > quality.
> > > 
> > Have you considered exposing this as a single file? Say following
> > the ISO8601 format - YYYY-MM-DD.
> 
> Yes. My initial implementation was exactly that. The thing is, that
> I suspect some fuel gauge implementations may only expose the year
> or just year + month. I chose 3 files, since receiving 'YYYY-MM'
> instead of full ISO code might be more unexpected than not having
> the DAY file available. But I don't have a strong opinion on this.
> 
Fwiw the ISO 8601 allows for YYYY-MM, although you're spot on. Having
the three fields separate makes perfect sense.

Thanks
Emil