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index fdcca991df30..9b3863386e54 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/power/charger-manager.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ Charger Manager supports the following:
Normally, the platform will need to resume and suspend some devices
that are used by Charger Manager.
+* Support for premature full-battery event handling
+ If the battery voltage drops by "fullbatt_vchkdrop_uV" after
+ "fullbatt_vchkdrop_ms" from the full-battery event, the framework
+ restarts charging. This check is also performed while suspended by
+ setting wakeup time accordingly and using suspend_again.
+
2. Global Charger-Manager Data related with suspend_again
========================================================
In order to setup Charger Manager with suspend-again feature
@@ -55,7 +61,7 @@ if there are multiple batteries. If there are multiple batteries, the
multiple instances of Charger Manager share the same charger_global_desc
and it will manage in-suspend monitoring for all instances of Charger Manager.
-The user needs to provide all the two entries properly in order to activate
+The user needs to provide all the three entries properly in order to activate
in-suspend monitoring:
struct charger_global_desc {
@@ -74,6 +80,11 @@ bool (*rtc_only_wakeup)(void);
same struct. If there is any other wakeup source triggered the
wakeup, it should return false. If the "rtc" is the only wakeup
reason, it should return true.
+
+bool assume_timer_stops_in_suspend;
+ : if true, Charger Manager assumes that
+ the timer (CM uses jiffies as timer) stops during suspend. Then, CM
+ assumes that the suspend-duration is same as the alarm length.
};
3. How to setup suspend_again
@@ -111,6 +122,16 @@ enum polling_modes polling_mode;
CM_POLL_CHARGING_ONLY: poll this battery if and only if the
battery is being charged.
+unsigned int fullbatt_vchkdrop_ms;
+unsigned int fullbatt_vchkdrop_uV;
+ : If both have non-zero values, Charger Manager will check the
+ battery voltage drop fullbatt_vchkdrop_ms after the battery is fully
+ charged. If the voltage drop is over fullbatt_vchkdrop_uV, Charger
+ Manager will try to recharge the battery by disabling and enabling
+ chargers. Recharge with voltage drop condition only (without delay
+ condition) is needed to be implemented with hardware interrupts from
+ fuel gauges or charger devices/chips.
+
unsigned int fullbatt_uV;
: If specified with a non-zero value, Charger Manager assumes
that the battery is full (capacity = 100) if the battery is not being
@@ -122,6 +143,8 @@ unsigned int polling_interval_ms;
this battery every polling_interval_ms or more frequently.
enum data_source battery_present;
+ : CM_BATTERY_PRESENT: assume that the battery exists.
+ CM_NO_BATTERY: assume that the battery does not exists.
CM_FUEL_GAUGE: get battery presence information from fuel gauge.
CM_CHARGER_STAT: get battery presence from chargers.