From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>,
Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>,
Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: tps6586x: Having slew rate settings for other than SM0/1 is not fatal
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:26:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130219182647.GD23508@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5123ACA1.9000408@wwwdotorg.org>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:47:29AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/16/2013 04:50 AM, Axel Lin wrote:
> > Ignore the setting and show "Only SM0/SM1 can set slew rate" warning is enough,
> > then we can return 0 instead of -EINVAL in tps6586x_regulator_set_slew_rate().
> >
> > Otherwise, probe() fails.
> Why does probe() fail; what is trying to set a slew rate on a regulator
> that doesn't support it? At least a few days ago in linux-next, this
> patch wasn't needed AFAIK. Is the problem something new?
I rather suspect Axel is doing this based on code inspection and review
rather than testing (either that or he has an enormous lab somewhere
full of all sorts of hardware!) - what he's saying is that the error
handling here seems excessive.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-16 11:50 [PATCH] regulator: tps6586x: Having slew rate settings for other than SM0/1 is not fatal Axel Lin
2013-02-19 16:47 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-19 18:26 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-02-19 19:32 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-19 20:07 ` Mark Brown
2013-02-20 0:53 ` Axel Lin
2013-02-20 2:12 ` Stephen Warren
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