[Gta04-owner] [PATCH v3 3/6] Documentation: DT: Document twl4030-madc-battery bindings

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Tue Mar 17 09:59:34 CET 2015


Am 17.03.2015 um 09:48 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>:

>> 
>> Temperature calibration should have already been done in the underlaying twl4030 iio driver.
>> 
>> Discharge rate is the real current flow reported in uA. Also
>> reported by iio.
> 
> Ack, but there's rather severe temperature dependency of the lithium
> battery, which you should take into account if you want to compute
> “percentage charged".

We just want to estimate it as good as possible. 5-10% is sufficient
and better than no value at all (which is what you get without this
driver).

And, we just convert the (existing) driver from non-DT to DT and to use
iio, so we do not want to change the inner logic what it does and how it
works.

BR,
Nikolaus



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