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From: t-kristo@ti.com (Tero Kristo)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:25:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] regulator: twl6030: add support for vdd1, vdd2 and
 vdd3 regulators
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On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 14:01 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:56:05PM +0200, Tero Kristo wrote:
> 
> > So, do you want me to also change the num_voltages value for the
> > regulator from zero to be the same as max_uV, as we have this check
> > within regulator/core:
> 
> >        if (!ops->list_voltage || selector >= rdev->desc->n_voltages)
> >                 return -EINVAL;
> 
> > This will also potentially make some code to iterate over regulator
> > voltages for ~1.5M times. I still don't think adding list_voltage for
> > the SMPS regulators makes any sense, unless either the API for
> > regulator_list_voltage is changed, or we change the control for these
> > regulators completely from set_voltage() based to set_voltage_sel()
> > based implementation.
> 
> Well, the important thing here is to fill in something useful for the
> returned selector rather than just leaving it undefined.  Providing a
> list_voltage() would be nice and make things more robust.

Still, setting selector in this case does nothing, as it is immediately
overwritten by the regulator core by -1. This looks like a perfectly
acceptable way to implement a regulator, as everything checks for the
presence of list_voltage anyway.

If you really insist, I could probably make something that does a
list_voltage and shows min and max voltages for the regulator, but I
don't know about the usefulness of that.

-Tero