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    twl4030_charger: Increase current carefully while watching voltage. · 21ae4040
    NeilBrown authored
    The USB Battery Charging spec (BC1.2) suggests a dedicated
    charging port can deliver from 0.5 to 5.0A at between 4.75 and 5.25
    volts.
    
    To choose the "correct" current voltage setting requires a trial
    and error approach: try to draw current and see if the voltage drops
    too low.
    
    Even with a configured Standard Downstream Port, it may not be possible
    to reliably pull 500mA - depending on cable quality and source
    quality I have reports of charging failure due to the voltage dropping
    too low.
    
    To address both these concerns, this patch introduce incremental
    current setting.
    The current pull from VBUS is increased in steps of 20mA every 100ms
    until the target is reached or until the measure voltage drops below
    4.75V.  If the voltage does go too low, the target current is reduced
    by 20mA and kept there.
    
    This applies to currents selected automatically, or to values
    set via sysfs.  So setting a large value will cause the maximum
    available to be used - up to the limit of 1.7A imposed by the
    hardware.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
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