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From: "Saravana Kannan" <skannan@codeaurora.org>
To: "Mark Brown" <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: "Saravana Kannan" <skannan@codeaurora.org>,
	"Liam Girdwood" <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: Optimise out noop voltage changes
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:50:15 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c472e9529b53486845cc4c1554b68e7d.squirrel@www.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101217114430.GB31453@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>

Mark Brown wrote:
>> 2. When I was trying to do the above this Sunday, I also noticed what
>> looks like a bug or at least an unpleasant behavior. A consumer's min_uV
>> and max_uV were being updated (for-next around Dec 12th) before calling
>> the producer's set voltage. So, in the above example, if consumer C
>> comes
>> in and asks for (10 - 15), it will prevent the producer voltage from
>> ever
>> changing again. All of consumer A and B's future requests will result in
>> a
>> failure since min_uV > max_uV when you do the consumer aggregation.
>
> I'm sorry I can't parse this at all.  What is a producer?
>
> If the consumers are all asking for incompatible things there's a system
> integration issue and the consumers need to be sorted out; it's
> difficult for the regulator API to do anything safely while everything
> wants incompatible configurations.

Sorry for the confusing explanation. Like I said, I didn't have access to
the code and I was using terms I had in my head. Anyway, wrote a quick
patch and sent it your way. Think of it more as an RFC to explain my point
-- I'm more than willing to implement it differently if you don't like it.

Thanks,
Saravana
-- 
Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-18  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-17  1:46 [PATCH 2/2] regulator: Optimise out noop voltage changes Saravana Kannan
2010-12-17 11:44 ` Mark Brown
2010-12-18  5:50   ` Saravana Kannan [this message]
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2010-12-16 15:49 [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add API to re-apply voltage to hardware Mark Brown
2010-12-16 15:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: Optimise out noop voltage changes Mark Brown

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