Re: [PATCH V1] TPS62360: Add tps62360 regulator driver

[Mark Brown <broonie-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:03:06PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > On Monday, January 09, 2012 12:41 PM, Mark Brown wrote

> > Why?  I'm not sure I understand this.  You're asking the regulator to
> > output ranges not voltages and you're setting multiple overlapping
> > ranges for each VSEL.

> If I fix the voltage with each VSEL then only 4 voltages will be
> possible but I want to have more than 4 different output.
> How do I achieve this?

The driver can decide what voltages to set - like I said in a previous
mail it could use something like LRU to decide which slot to use, or
perhaps be clever with the upper end of the range it was given.

> > What I'd expect to see is nothing but the GPIOs and their default state
> > (since sadly we can't read back from output GPIOs with gpiolib) being
> > specified.

> I did not understand it correctly. Can you please elaborate how can we
> pass the voltage with corresponding vsel?

For bootstrapping you can just read the values back.