[RFC PATCH 1/4] regulator: Introduce OMAP regulator to control PMIC over VC/VP

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Jun 10 12:49:05 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:18:34PM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:

> > So, the biggest problem here has been patch 4 (having to have a hack to
> > deploy this stuff is a bit worrying) plus the general not having a real
> > driver thing.

> Patch #4 in this series was a hack as it was not properly split up and
> organized as a proper DTS series -it was meant as a proof of concept -
> not entirely meant to indicate the remaining 1-3 patches were hacks
> :).

The way it reads is that you're building up to a hack - if what you've
done isn't enabling a sensible solution there might be a problem with
the earlier steps.

> I think you mean http://marc.info/?t=137059249100003&r=1&w=2 series. I
> will dig into it. if it is possible for Tegra and OMAP to use the same
> framework and strategy to deal with these kind of h/w blocks, all the
> more better.

Not just better, if each system doing this sort of thing needs to
reinvent the wheel something is going wrong.
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