[PATCH 01/01] regulator: support max8649

[Haojian Zhuang]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:01:41AM -0500, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Mark Brown
>
>> >> +     if (pdata->ramp_timing) {
>> >> +             info->ramp_timing = pdata->ramp_timing;
>> >> +             max8649_set_bits(info->i2c, MAX8649_RAMP, MAX8649_RAMP_MASK,
>> >> +                              info->ramp_timing << 5);
>> >> +     }
>
>> > You might want to implement the new enable_time() API for this.
>
>> This ramp timing is the time interval of each step on adjusting
>> voltage. I just want to control the timing in initialization.
>
> If this applies to any voltage change at all then rather than just power
> on I need to finish off the stuff I've been sitting on for handling slew
> times for voltage changes.  If the regulator hasn't yet reached the
> requested output when the consumer tries using it the consumer might get
> broken.
>
> If the ramp also gets applied when initially turning on the regulator
> you'd still want to implement enable_time() for the same reason.
>
>> enable_time() is only called before enabling regulator. And I don't
>> understand what would be done in enable_time().
>
> You'd return the amount of time taken to turn on the regulator and get
> the output voltage stable in the current configuration.  This will then
> be used by the core to ensure that the consumer only tries to use the
> regulator once it's fully enabled.
>
>> +static int max8649_set_mode(struct regulator_dev *rdev, unsigned int mode)
>> +{
>> +     struct max8649_regulator_info *info = rdev_get_drvdata(rdev);
>> +
>> +     switch (mode) {
>> +     case REGULATOR_MODE_FAST:
>> +     case REGULATOR_MODE_NORMAL:
>> +             max8649_set_bits(info->i2c, info->vol_reg, MAX8649_FORCE_PWM,
>> +                              MAX8649_FORCE_PWM);
>> +             break;
>
> Are you sure about this?  I'd expect to see force PWM used only for
> _FAST, for _NORMAL pulse skipping is usually desired behaviour.
>
>> +     case REGULATOR_MODE_IDLE:
>> +     case REGULATOR_MODE_STANDBY:
>> +             max8649_set_bits(info->i2c, info->vol_reg,
>> +                              MAX8649_FORCE_PWM, 0);
>
> I'd just leave these unimplemented (there's no need to support all
> modes) and make sure that this ties in with...
>
>> +static unsigned int max8649_get_mode(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
>> +{
>> +     struct max8649_regulator_info *info = rdev_get_drvdata(rdev);
>> +     int ret;
>> +
>> +     ret = max8649_reg_read(info->i2c, info->vol_reg);
>> +     if (ret & MAX8649_FORCE_PWM)
>> +             return REGULATOR_MODE_NORMAL;
>> +     return REGULATOR_MODE_IDLE;
>
> ...this.
>

update patch now.

Thanks
Haojian
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