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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Cc: lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cfreeman@nvidia.com, abrestic@chromium.org, afrid@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: add support to get VSEL register from hw driver
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:58:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150605165829.GY14071@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5571A5E3.3070700@nvidia.com>

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On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 07:06:35PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2015 03:19 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> >The problem will be there when external controller use the DVS pin for DVFS
> >and need two register address here. In this case, I think external
> >controller need to get information from different mechanism rather than via
> >regulator driver to avoid complication on regulator driver/framework.
> >Probably, it's definitely getting complicated (though in this case where
> >we only need one register we ought to be more able to manage it, not
> >that I have bright ideas right now).

> Are you accepting this patch? I am not much clear on the conclusion and
> hence my question is.

> Is anything pending  from me to provide any information?

I thought we agreed that this interface was a bad idea due to the need
to coordinate between the changes in register and the external device
using the value?

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 14:40 Laxman Dewangan
2015-05-27 14:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: max8973: Implement callback to get vsel and mask Laxman Dewangan
2015-05-28 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: add support to get VSEL register from hw driver Mark Brown
2015-05-29  5:51   ` Laxman Dewangan
2015-05-29  9:49     ` Mark Brown
2015-05-29 11:43       ` Laxman Dewangan
2015-06-05 13:36       ` Laxman Dewangan
2015-06-05 16:58         ` Mark Brown [this message]

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