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From: Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
	tony@atomide.com, lgirdwood@gmail.com,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: twl: Enable regulators over the powerbus as well
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:22:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F573E5.6030408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160325170558.GB5028@sirena.org.uk>



On 25.03.2016 19:05, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 06:50:18PM +0200, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote:
>> On 25.03.2016 18:19, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> What makes you claim that this is a bug in the framework?  Does anything
>>> in the machine configuration say that changing the modes is allowed?
>
>> My understanding is that regulator core have to make sure an enabled
>> regulator to be in REGULATOR_STATUS_NORMAL. Now it enables the regulator,
>
> No, absolutely not.  Modes are completely orthogonal to enabling and
> disabling the regulator - modes reflect an efficiency/accuracy tradeoff
> in the regulation, they are nothing to do with the regulator being
> enabled.  Setting a mode should not affect the regulator enable state
> and enabling the regulator should not affect the mode.
>
>> It might be that I am not getting the logic behind.
>
> Yes, that seems to be the case.
>

Fair enough.

Now, what am I supposed to do to the fix the problem. Will try to 
explain it in more details:

On Nokia N900 regulators are left in the mode last set by the bootloader 
or by the stock kernel, depends on whether it is power-on or reboot from 
stock kernel to mainline. That leads to problem with devices connected 
to vmmc2 regulator - when the device is rebooted from stock kernel vmmc2 
is left in "sleep" mode (REGULATOR_STATUS_STANDBY in terms of regulator 
framework) and as noone in mainline kernel switches vmmc2 regulator to 
normal (REGULATOR_STATUS_NORMAL) mode, devices supplied by it does not 
get enough power to operate normally.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-25 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 19:22 [PATCH] regulator: twl: Enable regulators over the powerbus as well Ivaylo Dimitrov
2016-03-25 11:17 ` Mark Brown
2016-03-25 15:02   ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-03-25 15:54     ` Mark Brown
2016-03-25 16:09       ` Ivaylo Dimitrov
2016-03-25 16:19         ` Mark Brown
2016-03-25 16:50           ` Ivaylo Dimitrov
2016-03-25 17:05             ` Mark Brown
2016-03-25 17:22               ` Ivaylo Dimitrov [this message]
2016-03-25 18:20                 ` Mark Brown
2016-03-25 20:19                   ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-03-25 22:28                     ` Mark Brown
2016-03-26  6:18                       ` Ivaylo Dimitrov
2016-03-25 16:47       ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-03-25 17:23         ` Mark Brown

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