Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: palmas: model SMPS10 as two regulators

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

On Thursday 20 June 2013 04:22 PM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Thursday 20 June 2013 02:07 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> SMPS10 has two outputs OUT1 and OUT2 and have one input IN1.
>> SMPS10-OUT2 is connected to SMPS10-IN1 and can be configured either
>> in BOOST mode or BYPASS mode. regulator_enable of SMPS10-OUT2 configures
>> it in BOOST mode. For BYPASS mode regulator_allow_bypass() API can be
>> used. SMPS10-OUT1 is connected to SMPS10-OUT2 and can be enabled using
>> regulator_enable().
>>
>> Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c |   39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>   include/linux/mfd/palmas.h           |    9 ++++----
>>   2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c
>> b/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c
>> index 3ae44ac..7004bab 100644
>> --- a/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c
>> +++ b/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c
>> @@ -97,7 +97,12 @@ static const struct regs_info palmas_regs_info[] = {
>>           .ctrl_addr    = PALMAS_SMPS9_CTRL,
>>       },
>>       {
>> -        .name        = "SMPS10",
>> +        .name        = "SMPS10_OUT1",
>> +        .sname        = "smps10-out2",
>> +        .ctrl_addr    = PALMAS_SMPS10_CTRL,
>> +    },
>> +    {
>> +        .name        = "SMPS10_OUT2",
>>           .sname        = "smps10-in",
>>
>
> This sequence can create regulator to be never register.
> In probe, we register regulator from 0 to max_id.
> Here smps10-out1 comes first and see the supply as smps10-out2 which is not
> registered yet and so will fail with PROBE_DEFER
> When again it tries, the same issue.

hmm.. But I was able to get (regulator_get) *SMPS10_OUT1* without any issue
during my testing. From looking at the code, I couldn't see *sname* being used
anywhere.

Thanks
Kishon