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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Allen Martin <amartin@nvidia.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Ensure voltages are within the allowed range
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:48:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141112144837.GI3815@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141112120201.GB30821@ulmo.nvidia.com>

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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:02:04PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:

> Perhaps rather than checking that the voltage is within the valid range
> we could at least cover the case where voltage is zero, which is what
> triggered me to write this patch.

Anything which has a voltage of zero is buggy anyway, zero volts is the
off state and should show up as such.  If we don't have a voltage then
the enable should fail.

> Do you have any recommendations to work around this other than adjusting
> the actual voltage to be within the range?

Such regulators need a way of providing a bootsrapping voltage if
they're off when we start I think.

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-12 10:12 [PATCH] regulator: Ensure voltages are within the allowed range Thierry Reding
2014-11-12 11:45 ` Mark Brown
2014-11-12 12:02   ` Thierry Reding
2014-11-12 14:48     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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