Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] power: Add linear_range helper

["Vaittinen, Matti" <Matti.Vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>]

Morning Linus,

On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:49 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:37 AM Matti Vaittinen
> <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com> wrote:
> 
> > Many devices have control registers which control some measurable
> > property. Often a register contains control field so that change in
> > this field causes linear change in the controlled property. It is
> > not
> > a rare case that user wants to give 'meaningfull' control values
> > and
> > driver needs to convert them to register field values. Even more
> > often user wants to 'see' the currently set value - again in
> > meaningfull units - and driver needs to convert the values it reads
> > from register to these meaningfull units.
> 
> Rename meaningfull -> meaningful
> 
> > This ideas is stol... borrowed from regulator framework's
> > regulator_linear_ranges handling.
> 
> Hehe maybe one day we can move the whole thing to lib/
> but let's take one step at a time.
> 
> > Provide a linear_range helper which can do conversion from user
> > value
> > to register value 'selector'.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Where should we put these?
> 
> This works.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Uh.. Sorry but I did already send v3 where I changed the approach to
what was suggested by Mark. Eg, I tried pulling the range code out of
regulator framework and used that in power/supply too.

Basic idea is still the same - but instead of using min_sel + amount of
values in range, the version 3 uses min_sel and max_sel as regulators
did. That minimized changes to numerous regulator drivers defining
ranges.

Sorry for making you to do unnecessary reviewing.

Best Regards
    Matti Vaittinen