[RFC 7/7] regulator: qcom-smd-rpm: Regulator driver for the Qualcomm RPM

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Oct 1 11:13:46 PDT 2014


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:34:51PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:

> According to the datasheet for the PMIC the regulators are indeed programmed in
> steps, but the steps seems to vary between different regulators and the details
> are hidden by the RPM that exposes contiguous voltage ranges.

> Either we run with this, add a few more compatibles to encode the steps or have
> the step coming from devicetree. I prefer the current implementation as that is
> the cleanest of these.

We have support for this sort of regulator in the core anyway so just
keep on doing what you're doing.

> +	if (vreg->desc.ops->set_voltage &&
> +	    (!initdata->constraints.min_uV || !initdata->constraints.max_uV)) {
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no voltage specified for regulator\n");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}

You shouldn't need to do this - it should be perfectly legal to have the
ability to set voltages but not use that ability.
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