Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: add support to get VSEL register from hw driver

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:21:36AM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

> In our system, CPU-DFLL is another HW module which controls the CPU voltage
> based on CPU frequency request. It issues the i2c command to the device for
> voltage change when frequency get change. For this reason, CPU-DFLL need the
> VSEL register address. The CPU DVFS SW driver controls the DVS input pin to
> control sleep entry/exit and VOUT0 for voltage change. So on this case, we
> really donot need to change the VSEL register address for active state
> voltage change and use the DVS for sleep entry/exit.

Sure, that's the normal use case for this stuff.

> The problem will be there when external controller use the DVS pin for DVFS
> and need two register address here. In this case, I think external
> controller need to get information from different mechanism rather than via
> regulator driver to avoid complication on regulator driver/framework.

Probably, it's definitely getting complicated (though in this case where
we only need one register we ought to be more able to manage it, not
that I have bright ideas right now).

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