[PATCH v2 3/4] arm/dts: Add tps65910 regulator DT data to am335x-evm.dts
AnilKumar, Chimata
anilkumar at ti.com
Thu Aug 16 09:25:23 EDT 2012
Mark,
Small correction
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 18:52:25, AnilKumar, Chimata wrote:
> Mark,
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 22:24:32, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 04:47:02PM +0000, AnilKumar, Chimata wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 18:23:39, Mark Brown wrote:
> >
> > > > If you have all these unrelated supplies in the system then your device
> > > > tree should accurately reflect that. However this would be a very
> >
> > > In that case I have to add all these fixed regulators.
> >
> > Why? You then immediately go on to say...
>
> Because all the nodes/regulators should be provided/registered otherwise
> "regulator_dev_lookup" returns NULL if there are no regulator matches with
> the supply_name.
>
> I have gone through this thread
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/166682/
>
> But problem here is single input supply battery/main is not sufficient.
>
> pmic->desc[i].supply_name = info->vin_name;
> with this assignment regulator core searches for exact supply name vcc1 or
> vcc2 etc if there are no matches then it will not register any regulators.
>
> >
> > > > unusual hardware design. Usually there would be a very small set of
> > > > system supply rails, frequently only one.
> >
> > > In case of AM335X-EVM one dedicated supply (5v) feeding to all the input
> > > supplies (vcc1-7 and vccio) of the regulators.
> >
> > ...that they all map onto the same physical supply?
> >
>
> Yes single physical supply, if we want to add single fixed regulator node
> to feed all the regulators then driver have to modify to support this.
> Similar to revert of "regulator: tps65910: add support for input supply"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Copy/paste error
Similar to revert of this patch "regulator: tps65910: set input_supply on
desc unconditionally"
Thanks
AnilKumar
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