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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: "Opensource [Anthony Olech]" <anthony.olech.opensource@diasemi.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Dajun Chen <david.chen@diasemi.com>
Subject: Re: [NEW DRIVER V3 8/8] DA9058 REGULATOR driver
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:40:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120917104017.GB5401@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24DF37198A1E704D9811D8F72B87EB51032CC96A@NB-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:29:43AM +0000, Opensource [Anthony Olech] wrote:

> > Why is this function writing to the hardware, especially writing the same value
> > every time?

> the ramp_register is DA9058_SUPPLY_REG and it is marked as volitile.
> Writing to the ramp enable bit starts the voltage change. When the PMIC has
> finished making the change it resets the bit. Thus to make another voltage
> change the bit needs to be set again.

This function is retrieving the amount of time it would take to set the
voltage.  Why would it be starting a voltage ramp?  The fact that it's
not setting the new voltage in the hardware ought to be a warning sign
here...

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-17 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-15 15:05 [NEW DRIVER V3 8/8] DA9058 REGULATOR driver Anthony Olech
2012-08-27 16:50 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-17 10:29   ` Opensource [Anthony Olech]
2012-09-17 10:40     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-09-17 10:49       ` Opensource [Anthony Olech]
2012-09-17 11:15         ` Mark Brown
2012-09-17 11:23           ` Opensource [Anthony Olech]
2012-09-17 11:32             ` Mark Brown
2012-09-17 12:07               ` Opensource [Anthony Olech]
2012-09-19  2:37                 ` Mark Brown

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