twl4030_charger: Increase current carefully while watching voltage.
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: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
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