From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753062AbaAQSLu (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:11:50 -0500 Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.40]:43827 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753160AbaAQSLr (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:11:47 -0500 Message-ID: <52D97260.1010304@ti.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:11:44 -0600 From: Nishanth Menon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: ti-abb: Add support for interleaved LDO registers References: <1389900750-27625-1-git-send-email-nm@ti.com> <20140117160821.GV17314@sirena.org.uk> <52D95EA1.6000608@ti.com> <20140117180015.GA17314@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140117180015.GA17314@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/17/2014 12:00 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:47:29AM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote: >> On 01/17/2014 10:08 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> Is there a system controller involved here by any chance? > >> Nope. ABB LDO module is a standalone instance whose register set >> happens to be part of a memory range, as I recently got to know, is a >> favorite for our hardware designers to put "misc" modules at SoC >> integration time - Sigh! I guess I have made more than enough stink >> about this internally already :(. > > That sounds exactly like a system controller :) Hmm.. I have considered something like PRCM in OMAP as a system controller... anyways.. I think I miss your suggestion here. Is there something you might suggest to improve in the patch or take an alternative route? -- Regards, Nishanth Menon