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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@gmail.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Chris Ball <chris@printf.net>,
	Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com>,
	Haijun Zhang <Haijun.Zhang@freescale.com>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Yuvaraj Kumar C D <yuvaraj.cd@gmail.com>,
	linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mmc <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mmc: core: Use regulator_get_voltage() if OCR mask is empty.
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:13:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53EDEB66.1040304@collabora.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140815095528.GH17528@sirena.org.uk>

Hello Mark,

On 08/15/2014 11:55 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 09:48:43AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
>> But now I wonder why regulator_list_voltage() even list the voltage for
>> fixed regulators (desc->fixed_uV) since they don't have the ability to
> 
> That's because it's very cheap to do and there is a comprehensible thing
> we can return - if we have to read the voltage that means potentially
> asking the hardware in an I2C transaction which is not cheap.
> 

Thanks a lot for the explanation, that does make a lot of sense.

> 
> There's plenty of potentially variable regulators used in these
> situations, I expect it's more likely that people were just ignoring the
> warning since it has no practical effect.
> 

Indeed.

Best regards,
Javier

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-15 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-14 12:39 [PATCH 1/1] mmc: core: Use regulator_get_voltage() if OCR mask is empty Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-08-14 14:13 ` Tim Kryger
2014-08-14 15:19   ` Mark Brown
2014-08-15  5:36     ` Tim Kryger
2014-08-15  7:48       ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-08-15  9:55         ` Mark Brown
2014-08-15 11:13           ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2014-08-15 14:51           ` Ulf Hansson
2014-08-16 12:59             ` Mark Brown
2014-08-19 11:29             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-08-19 12:43               ` Ulf Hansson
2014-08-19 12:54                 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-08-15 14:19         ` Tim Kryger
2014-08-15 22:29           ` Mark Brown
2014-08-17 17:11             ` Tim Kryger
2014-08-18 13:18               ` Mark Brown
2014-08-15  8:59       ` Mark Brown
2014-08-14 15:29   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-08-19 12:51 ` Ulf Hansson

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