ab8500_bm: Recharge condition not optimal for battery

Today the battery recharge is determined with a voltage threshold. This
voltage threshold is only valid when the battery is relaxed. In charging
algorithm the voltage read is the loaded battery voltage and no
compensation is done to get the relaxed voltage. When maintenance
charging is not selected, this makes the recharging condition to almost
immediately activate when there is a discharge present on the battery.

Depending on which vendor the battery comes from this behavior can wear
out the battery much faster than normal.

The fuelgauge driver is responsible to monitor the actual battery
capacity and is able to estimate the remaining capacity. It is better to
use the remaining capacity as a limit to determine when battery should
be recharged.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcus Cooper <marcus.xm.cooper@stericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Hakan BERG <hakan.berg@stericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonas ABERG <jonas.aberg@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/abx500.h b/include/linux/mfd/abx500.h
index 4906b1842d2f..0e6e90badfca 100644
--- a/include/linux/mfd/abx500.h
+++ b/include/linux/mfd/abx500.h
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ struct abx500_maxim_parameters {
  * @nominal_voltage:            Nominal voltage of the battery in mV
  * @termination_vol:            max voltage upto which battery can be charged
  * @termination_curr            battery charging termination current in mA
- * @recharge_vol                battery voltage limit that will trigger a new
+ * @recharge_cap                battery capacity limit that will trigger a new
  *                              full charging cycle in the case where maintenan-
  *                              -ce charging has been disabled
  * @normal_cur_lvl:             charger current in normal state in mA
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ struct abx500_battery_type {
         int nominal_voltage;
         int termination_vol;
         int termination_curr;
-        int recharge_vol;
+        int recharge_cap;
         int normal_cur_lvl;
         int normal_vol_lvl;
         int maint_a_cur_lvl;
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ struct abx500_bm_charger_parameters {
  * @bkup_bat_v          voltage which we charge the backup battery with
  * @bkup_bat_i          current which we charge the backup battery with
  * @no_maintenance      indicates that maintenance charging is disabled
+ * @capacity_scaling    indicates whether capacity scaling is to be used
  * @abx500_adc_therm    placement of thermistor, batctrl or battemp adc
  * @chg_unknown_bat     flag to enable charging of unknown batteries
  * @enable_overshoot    flag to enable VBAT overshoot control
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ struct abx500_bm_data {
         int bkup_bat_v;
         int bkup_bat_i;
         bool no_maintenance;
+        bool capacity_scaling;
         bool chg_unknown_bat;
         bool enable_overshoot;
         bool auto_trig;