On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 10:02 PM Sebastian Reichel
[off-list ref] wrote:

I wonder if this will ever be used by any other driver. Having
multiple maintanence states seems to be very specific to the
ab8500 driver stack.

It's actually coming from Samsung and their way of dealing
with their Li-Ion batteries. They even have further charging
states... Like starting the charge with slightly higher current
etc.

But the code itself looks ok and considering
this does not expose any (potentially unfixable) userspace ABI
and improves the AB8500 mess I'm fine with it.

I will rebase this patch before the NTC things and send
it separately so it can be applied. It will better to first merge
the pointer passing change I iterated though, so I'll wait a
bit so we can agree to merge that.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20211206000651.4168035-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org/ (local)

Yours,
Linus Walleij