From: Julien Panis <jpanis@baylibre.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Esteban Blanc <eblanc@baylibre.com>,
linus.walleij@linaro.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com,
a.zummo@towertech.it, alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, jneanne@baylibre.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH INTERNAL v1 3/3] regulator: tps6594-regulator: Add driver for TI TPS6594 regulators
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:40:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cb28b7e-fc43-a222-77be-137e04118bd8@baylibre.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZBr+7X3lcFdI8p/o@sirena.org.uk>
On 3/22/23 14:13, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:10:23AM +0100, Julien Panis wrote:
>
>> Question @ Mark/Liam:
>> Shouldn't we use the generic 'regulator-coupled-with' property
>> instead of 'ti,multi-phase-id' ?
> My understanding was that this was a hardware configuration where
> two regulators operate as one with only one set of registers used
> for configuration.
Your understanding was correct.
>
>> I am in charge of upstreaming dt-bindings and maintainers
>> pointed out the similarity between 'multi-phase' and 'coupled'
>> regulator concepts. Does 'regulator-coupled-with' mean that
>> outputs of buck converters are combined ? If so, this generic
>> property should replace our specific 'ti,multi-phase-id' prop,
>> I guess.
> No, coupled regulators are regulators where the voltages can vary
> but there's a constraint that their configurations need to be
> related somehow, for example they must be within 200mV of each
> other or something like that.
OK, thank you for this explanation.
So, we keep 'ti,multi-phase-id' property.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-22 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-24 13:31 [PATCH v1 0/3] TI TPS6594 PMIC support (RTC, pinctrl, regulators, device trees) Esteban Blanc
2023-02-24 13:31 ` [PATCH INTERNAL v1 1/3] rtc: tps6594: add driver for TPS6594 PMIC RTC Esteban Blanc
2023-03-07 11:08 ` Alexandre Belloni
2023-03-13 9:18 ` Esteban Blanc
2023-03-13 11:01 ` Alexandre Belloni
2023-03-13 12:10 ` Esteban Blanc
2023-03-13 13:38 ` Alexandre Belloni
2023-02-24 13:31 ` [PATCH INTERNAL v1 2/3] pinctrl: tps6594: add for TPS6594 PMIC Esteban Blanc
2023-02-24 18:49 ` kernel test robot
2023-02-25 20:36 ` kernel test robot
2023-03-06 14:10 ` Linus Walleij
2023-03-14 17:30 ` Esteban Blanc
2023-02-24 13:31 ` [PATCH INTERNAL v1 3/3] regulator: tps6594-regulator: Add driver for TI TPS6594 regulators Esteban Blanc
2023-02-24 13:42 ` Mark Brown
2023-03-03 15:02 ` jerome Neanne
2023-03-23 9:12 ` jerome Neanne
2023-03-23 11:38 ` Mark Brown
2023-03-24 8:00 ` jerome Neanne
2023-02-24 14:05 ` Matti Vaittinen
2023-03-03 14:49 ` jerome Neanne
2023-02-24 22:06 ` kernel test robot
2023-03-22 9:10 ` Julien Panis
2023-03-22 13:13 ` Mark Brown
2023-03-22 13:40 ` Julien Panis [this message]
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