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Commit 6037802b authored by Thomas Weißschuh's avatar Thomas Weißschuh Committed by Sebastian Reichel
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power: supply: core: implement extension API



Various drivers, mostly in platform/x86 extend the ACPI battery driver
with additional sysfs attributes to implement more UAPIs than are
exposed through ACPI by using various side-channels, like WMI,
nonstandard ACPI or EC communication.

While the created sysfs attributes look similar to the attributes
provided by the powersupply core, there are various deficiencies:

* They don't show up in uevent payload.
* They can't be queried with the standard in-kernel APIs.
* They don't work with triggers.
* The extending driver has to reimplement all of the parsing,
formatting and sysfs display logic.
* Writing a extension driver is completely different from writing a
normal power supply driver.

This extension API avoids all of these issues.
An extension is just a "struct power_supply_ext" with the same kind of
callbacks as in a normal "struct power_supply_desc".

The API is meant to be used via battery_hook_register(), the same way as
the current extensions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArmin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241211-power-supply-extensions-v6-1-9d9dc3f3d387@weissschuh.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
parent 57e5a9a8
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