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+========================
+Linux power supply class
+========================
+
+Synopsis
+~~~~~~~~
+Power supply class used to represent battery, UPS, AC or DC power supply
+properties to user-space.
+
+It defines core set of attributes, which should be applicable to (almost)
+every power supply out there. Attributes are available via sysfs and uevent
+interfaces.
+
+Each attribute has well defined meaning, up to unit of measure used. While
+the attributes provided are believed to be universally applicable to any
+power supply, specific monitoring hardware may not be able to provide them
+all, so any of them may be skipped.
+
+Power supply class is extensible, and allows to define drivers own attributes.
+The core attribute set is subject to the standard Linux evolution (i.e.
+if it will be found that some attribute is applicable to many power supply
+types or their drivers, it can be added to the core set).
+
+It also integrates with LED framework, for the purpose of providing
+typically expected feedback of battery charging/fully charged status and
+AC/USB power supply online status. (Note that specific details of the
+indication (including whether to use it at all) are fully controllable by
+user and/or specific machine defaults, per design principles of LED
+framework).
+
+
+Attributes/properties
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Power supply class has predefined set of attributes, this eliminates code
+duplication across drivers. Power supply class insist on reusing its
+predefined attributes *and* their units.
+
+So, userspace gets predictable set of attributes and their units for any
+kind of power supply, and can process/present them to a user in consistent
+manner. Results for different power supplies and machines are also directly
+comparable.
+
+See drivers/power/supply/ds2760_battery.c and drivers/power/supply/pda_power.c
+for the example how to declare and handle attributes.
+
+
+Units
+~~~~~
+Quoting include/linux/power_supply.h:
+
+  All voltages, currents, charges, energies, time and temperatures in µV,
+  µA, µAh, µWh, seconds and tenths of degree Celsius unless otherwise
+  stated. It's driver's job to convert its raw values to units in which
+  this class operates.
+
+
+Attributes/properties detailed
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
++--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|               **Charge/Energy/Capacity - how to not confuse**            |
++--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| **Because both "charge" (µAh) and "energy" (µWh) represents "capacity"   |
+| of battery, this class distinguish these terms. Don't mix them!**        |
+|                                                                          |
+| - `CHARGE_*`                                                             |
+|	attributes represents capacity in µAh only.                        |
+| - `ENERGY_*`                                                             |
+|	attributes represents capacity in µWh only.                        |
+| - `CAPACITY`                                                             |
+|	attribute represents capacity in *percents*, from 0 to 100.        |
++--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Postfixes:
+
+_AVG
+  *hardware* averaged value, use it if your hardware is really able to
+  report averaged values.
+_NOW
+  momentary/instantaneous values.
+
+STATUS
+  this attribute represents operating status (charging, full,
+  discharging (i.e. powering a load), etc.). This corresponds to
+  `BATTERY_STATUS_*` values, as defined in battery.h.
+
+CHARGE_TYPE
+  batteries can typically charge at different rates.
+  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.
+
+VOLTAGE_OCV
+  open circuit voltage of the battery.
+
+VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN, VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN
+  design values for maximal and minimal power supply voltages.
+  Maximal/minimal means values of voltages when battery considered
+  "full"/"empty" at normal conditions. Yes, there is no direct relation
+  between voltage and battery capacity, but some dumb
+  batteries use voltage for very approximated calculation of capacity.
+  Battery driver also can use this attribute just to inform userspace
+  about maximal and minimal voltage thresholds of a given battery.
+
+VOLTAGE_MAX, VOLTAGE_MIN
+  same as _DESIGN voltage values except that these ones should be used
+  if hardware could only guess (measure and retain) the thresholds of a
+  given power supply.
+
+VOLTAGE_BOOT
+  Reports the voltage measured during boot
+
+CURRENT_BOOT
+  Reports the current measured during boot
+
+CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN, CHARGE_EMPTY_DESIGN
+  design charge values, when battery considered full/empty.
+
+ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN, ENERGY_EMPTY_DESIGN
+  same as above but for energy.
+
+CHARGE_FULL, CHARGE_EMPTY
+  These attributes means "last remembered value of charge when battery
+  became full/empty". It also could mean "value of charge when battery
+  considered full/empty at given conditions (temperature, age)".
+  I.e. these attributes represents real thresholds, not design values.
+
+ENERGY_FULL, ENERGY_EMPTY
+  same as above but for energy.
+
+CHARGE_COUNTER
+  the current charge counter (in µAh).  This could easily
+  be negative; there is no empty or full value.  It is only useful for
+  relative, time-based measurements.
+
+PRECHARGE_CURRENT
+  the maximum charge current during precharge phase of charge cycle
+  (typically 20% of battery capacity).
+
+CHARGE_TERM_CURRENT
+  Charge termination current. The charge cycle terminates when battery
+  voltage is above recharge threshold, and charge current is below
+  this setting (typically 10% of battery capacity).
+
+CONSTANT_CHARGE_CURRENT
+  constant charge current programmed by charger.
+
+
+CONSTANT_CHARGE_CURRENT_MAX
+  maximum charge current supported by the power supply object.
+
+CONSTANT_CHARGE_VOLTAGE
+  constant charge voltage programmed by charger.
+CONSTANT_CHARGE_VOLTAGE_MAX
+  maximum charge voltage supported by the power supply object.
+
+INPUT_CURRENT_LIMIT
+  input current limit programmed by charger. Indicates
+  the current drawn from a charging source.
+INPUT_VOLTAGE_LIMIT
+  input voltage limit programmed by charger. Indicates
+  the voltage limit from a charging source.
+INPUT_POWER_LIMIT
+  input power limit programmed by charger. Indicates
+  the power limit from a charging source.
+
+CHARGE_CONTROL_LIMIT
+  current charge control limit setting
+CHARGE_CONTROL_LIMIT_MAX
+  maximum charge control limit setting
+
+CALIBRATE
+  battery or coulomb counter calibration status
+
+CAPACITY
+  capacity in percents.
+CAPACITY_ALERT_MIN
+  minimum capacity alert value in percents.
+CAPACITY_ALERT_MAX
+  maximum capacity alert value in percents.
+CAPACITY_LEVEL
+  capacity level. This corresponds to POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_*.
+
+TEMP
+  temperature of the power supply.
+TEMP_ALERT_MIN
+  minimum battery temperature alert.
+TEMP_ALERT_MAX
+  maximum battery temperature alert.
+TEMP_AMBIENT
+  ambient temperature.
+TEMP_AMBIENT_ALERT_MIN
+  minimum ambient temperature alert.
+TEMP_AMBIENT_ALERT_MAX
+  maximum ambient temperature alert.
+TEMP_MIN
+  minimum operatable temperature
+TEMP_MAX
+  maximum operatable temperature
+
+TIME_TO_EMPTY
+  seconds left for battery to be considered empty
+  (i.e. while battery powers a load)
+TIME_TO_FULL
+  seconds left for battery to be considered full
+  (i.e. while battery is charging)
+
+
+Battery <-> external power supply interaction
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Often power supplies are acting as supplies and supplicants at the same
+time. Batteries are good example. So, batteries usually care if they're
+externally powered or not.
+
+For that case, power supply class implements notification mechanism for
+batteries.
+
+External power supply (AC) lists supplicants (batteries) names in
+"supplied_to" struct member, and each power_supply_changed() call
+issued by external power supply will notify supplicants via
+external_power_changed callback.
+
+
+Devicetree battery characteristics
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Drivers should call power_supply_get_battery_info() to obtain battery
+characteristics from a devicetree battery node, defined in
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/supply/battery.txt. This is
+implemented in drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery.c.
+
+Properties in struct power_supply_battery_info and their counterparts in the
+battery node have names corresponding to elements in enum power_supply_property,
+for naming consistency between sysfs attributes and battery node properties.
+
+
+QA
+~~
+
+Q:
+   Where is POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_XYZ attribute?
+A:
+   If you cannot find attribute suitable for your driver needs, feel free
+   to add it and send patch along with your driver.
+
+   The attributes available currently are the ones currently provided by the
+   drivers written.
+
+   Good candidates to add in future: model/part#, cycle_time, manufacturer,
+   etc.
+
+
+Q:
+   I have some very specific attribute (e.g. battery color), should I add
+   this attribute to standard ones?
+A:
+   Most likely, no. Such attribute can be placed in the driver itself, if
+   it is useful. Of course, if the attribute in question applicable to
+   large set of batteries, provided by many drivers, and/or comes from
+   some general battery specification/standard, it may be a candidate to
+   be added to the core attribute set.
+
+
+Q:
+   Suppose, my battery monitoring chip/firmware does not provides capacity
+   in percents, but provides charge_{now,full,empty}. Should I calculate
+   percentage capacity manually, inside the driver, and register CAPACITY
+   attribute? The same question about time_to_empty/time_to_full.
+A:
+   Most likely, no. This class is designed to export properties which are
+   directly measurable by the specific hardware available.
+
+   Inferring not available properties using some heuristics or mathematical
+   model is not subject of work for a battery driver. Such functionality
+   should be factored out, and in fact, apm_power, the driver to serve
+   legacy APM API on top of power supply class, uses a simple heuristic of
+   approximating remaining battery capacity based on its charge, current,
+   voltage and so on. But full-fledged battery model is likely not subject
+   for kernel at all, as it would require floating point calculation to deal
+   with things like differential equations and Kalman filters. This is
+   better be handled by batteryd/libbattery, yet to be written.