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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>,
	linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 6/6] soc/tegra: regulators: Add regulators coupler for Tegra30
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 18:40:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190513174000.GH5168@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3988cfb6-55fe-48c4-5365-ac79871f7fd2@gmail.com>

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On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 09:29:54PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 12.05.2019 12:04, Mark Brown пишет:
> > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 04:27:42PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

> > Those seem like they should be doable in generic code, though the fact
> > that the constraint is variable makes it annoying to specify - otherwise
> > it'd just be a minimum and maximum spread.  I'm not really coming up
> > with any great ideas right now, it's getting into OPP type territory but
> > it sounds like there's more flexibility for ramping the core voltage so
> > you'd end up with silly numbers of OPPs.

> The OPP shouldn't have to do anything in regards to the regulators
> coupling. The whole idea of the regulators coupling is to make device
> drivers to not churn with the coupling. The coupling in this case is
> specific to SoC and not to a particular board.

The thing with OPPs is that they specify a whole table of values that
work together including regulator settings, the result being that you
have many fewer options but don't need to think about constraints.

> I think the current approach with the customized regulators coupler is
> the best solution for the time being. We may consider something more
> generic if there will be other users with a similar coupling
> requirements, otherwise it's quite difficult to judge what is "generic".
> Do you agree?

Some of the constraints (like having drivers loaded) are kind of fun...

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-13 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-14 17:59 [RFC PATCH v1 0/6] Introduce machine-specific regulators coupling API Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-14 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/6] regulator: core: Introduce API for machine-specific regulators coupling Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-08  7:55   ` Mark Brown
2019-05-08 13:05     ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-14 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/6] regulator: core: Parse max-spread value per regulator couple Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-14 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/6] regulator: core: Expose some of core functions Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-14 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 4/6] regulator: core Bump MAX_COUPLED to 3 Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-14 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 5/6] soc/tegra: regulators: Add regulators coupler for Tegra20 Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-08  7:57   ` Mark Brown
2019-05-08 13:10     ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-12  9:06       ` Mark Brown
2019-05-12 17:42         ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-13 17:38           ` Mark Brown
2019-05-14 19:12             ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-14 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 6/6] soc/tegra: regulators: Add regulators coupler for Tegra30 Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-08  7:58   ` Mark Brown
2019-05-08 13:27     ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-12  9:04       ` Mark Brown
2019-05-12 18:29         ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-13 17:40           ` Mark Brown [this message]
2019-05-14 18:30             ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-15  9:05               ` Mark Brown
2019-05-15 11:44                 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-15 14:56                   ` Mark Brown
2019-05-05 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/6] Introduce machine-specific regulators coupling API Dmitry Osipenko
2019-05-08  8:05   ` Mark Brown
2019-05-08 14:03     ` Dmitry Osipenko

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