Re: [PATCH] regulator: Support voltage offsets to compensate for drops in system

[Liam Girdwood <lrg@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 22:13 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Some systems, particularly physically large systems used for early
> prototyping, may experience substantial voltage drops between the regulator
> and the consumers as a result of long traces in the system. With these
> systems voltages may need to be set higher than requested in order to
> ensure reliable system operation.
> 
> Allow systems to work around such hardware issues by allowing constraints
> to supply an offset to be applied to any requested and reported voltages.
> This is not ideal, especially since the voltage drop may be load dependant,
> but is sufficient for most affected systems, it is not expected to be used
> in production hardware. The offset is applied after all constraint
> processing so constraints should be specified in terms of consumer values
> not physically configured values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---

Applied.

Thanks

Liam