Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: power/supply: Add ltc4162-l-charger

[Mike Looijmans]

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Mike Looijmans
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On 26-10-2020 15:43, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 04:10:30PM +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> > Add support for the LTC4162-L Li-Ion battery charger. The driver allows
> > reading back telemetry and to set some charging options like the input
> > current limit.
> >
> > This adds the devicetree bindings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   .../bindings/power/supply/ltc4162-l.yaml      | 60 +++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/ltc4162-l.yaml
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/ltc4162-l.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/ltc4162-l.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..a23dd6f3fae0
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/ltc4162-l.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +# Copyright (C) 2020 Topic Embedded Products
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/power/supply/ltc4162-l.yaml#";
> > +$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#";
> > +
> > +title: Linear Technology (Analog Devices) LTC4162-L Charger
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@xxxxxxxx>
> > +
> > +description: |
> > +  The LTC ® 4162-L is an advanced monolithic synchronous step-down switching
> > +  battery charger and PowerPath (TM) manager that seamlessly manages power
> > +  distribution between input sources such as wall adapters, backplanes, solar
> > +  panels, etc., and a rechargeable Lithium-Ion/Polymer battery.
> > +
> > +  Specifications about the charger can be found at:
> > +    https://www.analog.com/en/products/ltc4162-s.html
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    enum:
> > +      - lltc,ltc4162-l
> > +
> > +  reg:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +    description: I2C address of the charger.
> > +
> > +  lltc,rsnsb:
> > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +    description: Battery sense resistor in milli Ohm.
> > +    minimum: 1
> > +
> > +  lltc,rsnsi:
> > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +    description: Input current sense resistor in milli Ohm.
> > +    minimum: 1
> These should have a unit suffix as defined in property-units.txt.
> There's not one for milli Ohms, does micro Ohms give you enough range?
> If not, you can add it though that's discouraged simply so that we don't
> have differring units in each binding for the same thing.

Micro Ohms is fine, might even be beneficial. Expected values are in the 
10 milliohm range. Sorry to have missed that. I'll adapt the driver to 
use this value without overflowing.



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Mike Looijmans