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* [PATCH 0/2] regulator: Add support for parallel regulators
@ 2015-11-30 15:29 Maxime Ripard
  2015-11-30 15:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add coupled regulator Maxime Ripard
  2015-11-30 15:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: sunxi: chip: Add Wifi chip Maxime Ripard
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Maxime Ripard @ 2015-11-30 15:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Brown, Chen-Yu Tsai, Liam Girdwood
  Cc: devicetree, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, Maxime Ripard

Hi,

On some boards, devices consuming a lot of power cannot use a single
regulator, but few of them in parallel to spread the consumption.

In such a case, we must ensure that all these regulators are kept in
sync.

Since this is something that is totally board specific, it should
obviously not be handle by each and every customer drivers that might
be driving a device wired this way on a particular board.

Instead, we implemented a regulator driver that just aggregates
several parent regulators and just forwards the regulators calls to
them.

Let me know what you think,
Maxime


Maxime Ripard (2):
  regulator: Add coupled regulator
  ARM: sunxi: chip: Add Wifi chip

 arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-r8-chip.dts           |  44 ++++-
 drivers/regulator/Kconfig                     |   7 +
 drivers/regulator/Makefile                    |   1 +
 drivers/regulator/coupled-voltage-regulator.c | 241 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/regulator/coupled-voltage-regulator.c

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2.6.3


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2015-11-30 16:41   ` Mark Brown
2015-11-30 17:17   ` Mathieu Poirier
2015-12-01 14:04     ` Maxime Ripard
2015-12-01 18:58       ` Mark Brown
2015-11-30 19:06   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-12-01 21:30     ` Maxime Ripard
2015-11-30 15:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: sunxi: chip: Add Wifi chip Maxime Ripard

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