From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
nm@ti.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/16] PM / OPP: get/put regulators from OPP core
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:52:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160208225205.GE10791@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160202032347.GA31828@vireshk>
On 02/02, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 01-02-16, 18:29, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > I'm still lost why we need this API. When the OPP is torn down we
> > can call regulator_put there instead. The same style seems to be
> > done for supported hw, and prop_name, which doesn't make any
> > sense either. Just tear everything down when there aren't any
> > more OPPs in the table.
>
> I explained that earlier as well, but you never replied to that :)
> Let me paste that again here:
>
> Consider this case:
> - Platform code sets regulator for cpuX (Create OPP-table struct and
> set regulator)
> - insmod cpufreq-dt.ko (Fill OPP table)
> - rmmod cpufreq-dt.ko (Remove OPP table and struct, according to your
> suggestion)
> - insmod cpufreq-dt.ko (No regulator found).
>
> The platform code is supposed to set regulator, supported-hw,
> prop-name only once from some init-code. And it should just work out
> of the box after that. And so these calls are really required.
>
Ok the sequence makes sense now that it's clearly explained. I
wonder if we should create and destroy OPP tables when a device
is created and destroyed instead of triggering that from a
driver. I suppose not creating the tables until they're used is
good for saving memory though?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 8:20 [PATCH V2 00/16] PM / OPP: Introduce APIs to transition OPPs Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 01/16] PM / OPP: get/put regulators from OPP core Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 2:29 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-02-02 3:23 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-08 22:52 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2016-02-09 3:53 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-09 3:54 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 02/16] PM / OPP: Disable OPPs that aren't supported by the regulator Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 03/16] PM / OPP: Introduce dev_pm_opp_get_max_volt_latency() Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 2:30 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 04/16] PM / OPP: Introduce dev_pm_opp_get_max_transition_latency() Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 05/16] PM / OPP: Parse clock-latency and voltage-tolerance for v1 bindings Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 06/16] PM / OPP: Manage device clk Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 07/16] PM / OPP: Add dev_pm_opp_set_rate() Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 2:10 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-02-02 3:38 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 20:46 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 08/16] cpufreq: dt: Convert few pr_debug/err() calls to dev_dbg/err() Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 09/16] cpufreq: dt: Rename 'need_update' to 'opp_v1' Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 10/16] cpufreq: dt: OPP layers handles clock-latency for V1 bindings as well Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 11/16] cpufreq: dt: Pass regulator name to the OPP core Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 2:34 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-02-02 6:10 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-08 22:55 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-02-09 4:10 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 12/16] cpufreq: dt: Unsupported OPPs are already disabled Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 13/16] cpufreq: dt: Reuse dev_pm_opp_get_max_transition_latency() Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 14/16] cpufreq: dt: Use dev_pm_opp_set_rate() to switch frequency Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 15/16] cpufreq: dt: drop references to DT node Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 6:11 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-08 22:56 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-02-09 4:22 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-01-28 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 16/16] cpufreq: dt: No need to allocate resources anymore Viresh Kumar
2016-02-02 6:12 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-08 22:58 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-01-30 1:48 ` [PATCH V2 00/16] PM / OPP: Introduce APIs to transition OPPs Stephen Boyd
2016-02-01 4:08 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-01 19:41 ` Stephen Boyd
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