Re: [PATCH 12/13] regulator: add pm8008 pmic regulator driver

Konrad Dybcio
2024-05-07T11:48:34Z

On 5/6/24 17:08, Johan Hovold wrote:
> From: Satya Priya <quic_c_skakit@quicinc.com>
>
> Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. PM8008 is an I2C-controlled PMIC containing
> seven LDO regulators. Add a PM8008 regulator driver to support PMIC
> regulator management via the regulator framework.
>
> Note that this driver, originally submitted by Satya Priya [1], has been
> reworked to match the new devicetree binding which no longer describes
> each regulator as a separate device.
>
> This avoids describing internal details like register offsets in the
> devicetree and allows for extending the implementation with features
> like over-current protection without having to update the binding.
>
> Specifically note that the regulator interrupts are shared between all
> regulators.
>
> Note that the secondary regmap is looked up by name and that if the
> driver ever needs to be generalised to support regulators provided by
> the primary regmap (I2C address) such information could be added to a
> driver lookup table matching on the parent compatible.
>
> This also fixes the original implementation, which looked up regulators
> by 'regulator-name' property rather than devicetree node name and which
> prevented the regulators from being named to match board schematics.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1655200111-18357-8-git-send-email-quic_c_skakit@quicinc.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Satya Priya <quic_c_skakit@quicinc.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
> [ johan: rework probe to match new binding, amend commit message and
> Kconfig entry]
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
> ---

I'm a bit lukewarm on calling this qcom-pm8008-regulator.. But then
qcom-i2c-regulator or qpnp-i2c-regulator may bite due to being overly
generic.. Would you know whether this code will also be used for e.g.
PM8010?

Konrad