From: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: andy.gross@linaro.org, lina.iyer@linaro.org,
sboyd@codeaurora.org, linux-soc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add support for SAW2 regulators
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:47:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568E6C8F.6020509@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151218172206.GD5727@sirena.org.uk>
On 12/18/2015 07:22 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:14:58PM +0200, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>> The SAW2 (Subsystem Power Manager and Adaptive Voltage Scaling Wrapper)
>> is part of the SPM subsystem. It is a hardware block found on some of the
>> Qualcomm chipsets, which regulates the power to the CPU cores. Add some
>> basic support for it, so that we can do dynamic voltage scaling.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>
> Please don't implement regualtors outside of the regulator driver
> directory unless there is a really strong reason to do so, it makes it
> much easier to maintain the subsystem and keep track of what's going on.
>
The reason of implementing the regulator functionality in drivers/soc is
that it is part of the same hardware. The saw2 hardware manages the power
controls - switching to low-power sleep modes, adaptive voltage scaling,
voltage control and messaging to the PMIC. Keeping all the functionality
of this hardware into a single driver seemed the suitable approach to me.
But if you think this is not a strong reason, then the approach probably
would be to export parts of the existing driver and use syscon from a
separate driver in drivers/regulator?
Thanks,
Georgi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-18 16:14 [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add support for SAW2 regulators Georgi Djakov
2015-12-18 17:22 ` Mark Brown
2016-01-07 13:47 ` Georgi Djakov [this message]
2016-01-12 2:34 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-12-18 17:24 ` Lina Iyer
2016-01-07 13:50 ` Georgi Djakov
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