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From: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: arizona-ldo1: Add ramp time for HI_PWR
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:19:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324171925.GL23705@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150324170554.GP17265@sirena.org.uk>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:05:54AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:40:50PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 09:06:09AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > So changes to move to the top voltage always take constant time while
> > > all other voltage changes are instantaneous?  That doesn't seem right.
> > > I'd expect something more like a calculation based on some number of
> > > miliseconds per milivolt.
> 
> > Its more just that this is the only case that we really care
> > about. The reg only ever gets used at 1.2V and 1.8V, and the
> > only case where there is a problem is if we ask for 1.8V and
> > we don't have it yet.
> 
> > I don't think we really have the data to give for other cases. I
> > could expand the comment perhaps? Or TBH it is fast enough it is
> > unlikely to ever be a problem in practice so we could just drop
> > the patch.
> 
> You'll probably find that the ramp is pretty much linear so just
> changing to something that multiplies out to the expected value will be
> good enough.  I'd rather not have bad examples that other drivers might
> copy.

Cool, I will respin.

Thanks,
Charles

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-24 14:27 [PATCH] regulator: arizona-ldo1: Add ramp time for HI_PWR Charles Keepax
2015-03-24 16:06 ` Mark Brown
2015-03-24 16:40   ` Charles Keepax
2015-03-24 17:05     ` Charles Keepax
2015-03-24 17:20       ` Mark Brown
2015-03-24 17:05     ` Mark Brown
2015-03-24 17:19       ` Charles Keepax [this message]

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