From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: twl6030: add support for vdd1, vdd2 and vdd3 regulators
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:49:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120224114940.GB5450@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330076289.4102.517.camel@sokoban>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:38:09AM +0200, Tero Kristo wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 15:34 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Since you're using min_uV as the "register value" you probably ought to
> > be returning that as the selector too and supplying a list_voltage()
> > which just passes the selector back in case something tries to use it
> > and gets confused.
> I was thinking at some point about adding a list_voltage for these
> regulators, however I dropped that idea, because the regulators can
> support a range of voltages (from min to max) with some stepping value.
> But... if you propose that the list_voltage would just return the
> current voltage back, wouldn't that also potentially confuse the user
> more, as it can only see the single voltage and nothing else, maybe
> making it to think that the regulator can only support one voltage
> level?
Yes, that'd be completely broken. You'd need to just return the
selector back which would tell them that they had voltage control in
microvolt steps.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-24 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-23 11:05 [PATCH] regulator: twl6030: add support for vdd1, vdd2 and vdd3 regulators Tero Kristo
2012-02-23 15:34 ` Mark Brown
2012-02-24 9:38 ` Tero Kristo
2012-02-24 11:49 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-02-24 13:16 ` Tero Kristo
2012-02-24 13:24 ` Mark Brown
2012-02-24 13:56 ` Tero Kristo
2012-02-24 14:01 ` Mark Brown
2012-02-24 14:25 ` Tero Kristo
2012-02-24 14:34 ` Mark Brown
2012-02-24 14:42 ` Tero Kristo
2012-02-24 14:50 ` Mark Brown
2012-02-24 15:04 ` Tero Kristo
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