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From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	peron.clem@gmail.com, Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>,
	Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: do not balance 'boot-on' coupled regulators without constraints
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 15:37:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f0e021d-387a-4693-882d-aba66e20dd2b@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200605102018.GA5413@sirena.org.uk>

Hi Mark,

On 05.06.2020 12:20, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:37:24AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>
>> Balancing of the 'boot-on' coupled regulators must wait until the clients
>> set their constraints, otherwise the balancing code might change the
> No, this is not what boot-on means at all.  It is there for cases where
> we can't read the enable status from the hardware.  Trying to infer
> *anything* about the runtime behaviour from it being present or absent
> is very badly broken.

Okay, what about the 'always-on' property? I don't think that we need 
another property for annotating this behavior, as in my opinion this is 
just an implementation issue on the Linux kernel and regulator 
framework. Alternatively I can drop the property check, but then it 
won't be possible to have a regulator without a consumer, which follows 
the other one (although we still don't have a real use case for it).

If you don't like this idea at all, I will try to move this logic to the 
custom coupler again, although it would mean some code copying.

> Saravana (CCed) was working on some patches which tried to deal with
> some stuff around this for enables using the sync_state() callback.
> Unfortunately there's quite a few problems with the current approach
> (the biggest one from my point of view being that it's implemented so
> that it requires every single consumer of every device on the PMIC to
> come up but there's others at more of an implementation level).
I'm not sure if we really need such complex solution for this...

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-05 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20200605063729eucas1p288dd9d3acdb62cc86745cb6af5c31fc6@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-06-05  6:37 ` [PATCH] regulator: do not balance 'boot-on' coupled regulators without constraints Marek Szyprowski
2020-06-05  6:54   ` Viresh Kumar
2020-06-05 10:20   ` Mark Brown
2020-06-05 13:37     ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2020-06-05 15:59       ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09  2:37         ` Saravana Kannan

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