[PATCH v2 3/4] cpufreq: mediatek: add Mediatek cpufreq driver
Viresh Kumar
viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Wed Mar 11 04:46:42 PDT 2015
On 11 March 2015 at 17:12, Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Instead of creating virtual regulators I would be strongly in favor of
> reviving the voltage-domain work. That would allow us to push all those
> voltage dependencies we have seen on various SoCs into the domain
> handling code and don't care about it in the drivers.
>
> In that case cpufreq-dt wouldn't control a regulator directly, but
> request a specific voltage from the domain the CPUs are located in and
> those in turn would control the regulators supplying them.
I agree that it would be the right approach but who is going to do that stuff ?
I think until the time we revive the voltage-domain stuff we need to support
mediatek's driver. And probably a virtual regulator is the best approach
unless someone else comes up with another idea.
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