From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Chen Subject: Re: [RFC v4 01/14] regulator: of: Add helper for getting all supplies Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:29:01 +0800 Message-ID: <20160612072901.GD22054@shlinux2> References: <1465465471-28740-1-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> <1465465471-28740-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> <20160609102925.GS7510@sirena.org.uk> <5759560A.70107@samsung.com> <20160610173056.GA16503@rob-hp-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160610173056.GA16503@rob-hp-laptop> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Rob Herring Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Mark Brown , Ulf Hansson , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Sebastian Reichel , Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , David Woodhouse , Liam Girdwood , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Hans de Goede , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , Heiko Stuebner , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.ke List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:30:56PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:42:02PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > On 06/09/2016 12:29 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:44:18AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > >> Few drivers have a need of getting regulator supplies without knowing > > >> their names: > > >> 1. The Simple Framebuffer driver works on setup provided by bootloader > > >> (outside of scope of kernel); > > >> 2. Generic power sequence driver may be attached to any device node. > > >> > > >> Add a Device Tree helper for parsing "-supply" properties and returning > > >> allocated bulk regulator consumers. > > > > > > I'm still very concerned that this is just an invitation to people to > > > write half baked regulator consumers and half baked DTs to go along with > > > it, making it a standard API that doesn't have big red flags on it that > > > will flag up when "normal" drivers use it is not good. Right now this > > > just looks like a standard API and people are going to just start using > > > it. If we are going to do this perhaps we need a separate header or > > > something to help flag this up. > > > > No problem, I can move it to a special header. Actually, if you dislike > > this as an API, it does not have to be in header at all. I can just > > duplicate the simplefb code. > > > > > In the case of power sequences I'd expect the sequences to perform > > > operations on named supplies - the core shouldn't know what the supplies > > > are but the thing specifying the sequence should. > > > > Hm, so maybe passing names like: > > > > usb3503@08 { > > reset-gpios = <&gpx3 5 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; > > initial-mode = <1>; > > vdd-supply = <&buck8_reg>; > > foo-supply = <&buck9_reg>; > > > > power-sequence; > > power-sequence-supplies = "vdd", "foo"; > > This alone would be fine as it is just one property, but then what's > next? power-sequence-delay, power-sequence-clocks, etc. What if you > need to express ordering relationship of supplies, clocks, gpios? We end > up with a scripting language in DT and we don't want to have that. > Can we do things like below: - DT describes hardware elements (clock, gpios, etc) for power sequence, and we need a node for power sequence. - Power sequence framework handles getting hardware elements. - Power sequence platform driver handles special sequence for devices, and we can create some generic drivers for generic devices. -- Best Regards, Peter Chen