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

[Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>]

On Thursday 20 June 2013 07:20 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> 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@nvidia.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
>>> ---
>>>    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.

We used the sname as
pmic->desc[id].supply_name = palmas_regs_info[id].sname;

However, how you have populated your dt?
Have you added like
smps10-out2-supply = <&SMPS10_OUT2>

for the palmas regualtor -dt.