Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] power: supply: core: supply battery soc with decimal form

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:03:40PM +0800, Qiwu Huang wrote:
> From: Qiwu Huang <huangqiwu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Broadcast battery soc with decimal form.
> soc_decimal is the decimal part of battery soc.
> soc_decimal_rate is update frequency of decimal
> part of battery soc.
> We want to report such as 0.01 to 99.99% to
> user space to improve user experience
> when do very quick charging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiwu Huang <huangqiwu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c   |  2 ++
>  include/linux/power_supply.h                |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
> index f4234ba1684a..bcc8ccad8163 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
> @@ -349,6 +349,26 @@ Description:
>  		Access: Read
>  		Valid values: Represented in microvolts
>  
> +What:		/sys/class/power_supply/<supply_name>/soc_decimal,
> +Date:		Jul 2020
> +Contact:	jiangfei1@xxxxxxxxxx
> +Description:
> +		Broadcast battery soc with decimal form.
> +		soc_decimal is the start decimal part of battery soc.
> +
> +		Access: Read
> +		Valid values: 0 - 100

How can "100" be a valid decimal form here if this is a percent?


> +
> +What:		/sys/class/power_supply/<supply_name>/soc_decimal_rate,
> +Date:		Jul 2020
> +Contact:	jiangfei1@xxxxxxxxxx
> +Description:
> +		Broadcast battery soc with decimal form.
> +		soc_decimal_rate is the decimal part of battery soc update freqency.
> +
> +		Access: Read
> +		Valid values: 0 - 100

I think you need to document this a lot better as I still don't really
understand what this is for or how to use it or report it.

And what does "soc" mean here?

thanks,

greg k-h