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power_supply: Add new power supply AUTHENTIC property

It is possible that users can use non-standard chargers or use invalid
batteries especially with mobile devices.

This patch adds a new power supply property called 'AUTHENTIC' to
indicate this to the user(user space).

Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Pallala <ramakrishna.pallala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Ramakrishna Pallala 13 years ago
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Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt

@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ This defines trickle and fast charges.  For batteries that
 are already charged or discharging, 'n/a' can be displayed (or
 'unknown', if the status is not known).
 
+AUTHENTIC - indicates the power supply (battery or charger) connected
+to the platform is authentic(1) or non authentic(0).
+
 HEALTH - represents health of the battery, values corresponds to
 POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH_*, defined in battery.h.
 

+ 1 - 0
drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c

@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static struct device_attribute power_supply_attrs[] = {
 	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(health),
 	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(present),
 	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(online),
+	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(authentic),
 	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(technology),
 	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(cycle_count),
 	POWER_SUPPLY_ATTR(voltage_max),

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/power_supply.h

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ enum power_supply_property {
 	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_HEALTH,
 	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_PRESENT,
 	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_ONLINE,
+	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_AUTHENTIC,
 	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TECHNOLOGY,
 	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CYCLE_COUNT,
 	POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_VOLTAGE_MAX,