Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] dt: power: st: Provide bindings for ST's OPPs

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> On 09-09-15, 17:57, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > I think it will work for qcom use cases.
> 
> Thanks for the Rant Rob, it finally got me moving :)
> 
> > We can collapse the
> > tables down to one node and have speed bin and version as the
> > opp-supported-hw property. The opp-microvolt-names property would
> 
> I am probably going to remove opp-microvolt-names property as well, if
> we are going to use separate entries for all voltage ranges in OPP
> node. i.e. two voltage ranges, slow and fast, like this:
> 
>                      regulator A       regulator B
> opp-microvolt-slow = <tarA minA maxA>, <tarB minB maxB>;
> opp-microvolt-fast = <tarA minA maxA>, <tarB minB maxB>;
> 
> > be where we put the different voltage bins. What about the other
> > properties like opp-microamp or opp-suspend? Will all of those
> 
> Lets keep them as is for now, unless we have a real user.
> 
> > also get *-names properties to index into them based on some
> > string? I don't actually need those for my devices, but I'm just
> > pointing it out in case someone else wants to compress tables but
> > they have different microamps or clock latencies, etc.
> > 
> > Finally, does this mean we will get rid of operating-points-names?
> 
> That's the next thing I wanted to ask from Rob. We are surely not
> going to use them and there are no users or kernel code to support
> them today. Can we get rid of them from the DT ?

I think you answered your own question.

No users == !ABI == Strip it out.

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