Re: [PATCH V13 7/9] regulator: Add a regulator driver for the PM8008 PMIC

[Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>]

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Quoting Satya Priya Kakitapalli (Temp) (2022-05-27 01:24:19)
>
> On 5/21/2022 8:26 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
>     Quoting Satya Priya (2022-05-20 03:49:35)
>
>         diff --git a/drivers/regulator/qcom-pm8008-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/qcom-pm8008-regulator.c
>         new file mode 100644
>         index 0000000..6e815c6
>         --- /dev/null
>         +++ b/drivers/regulator/qcom-pm8008-regulator.c
>         @@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
>         +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>         +/* Copyright (c) 2022, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved. */
>         +
>         +#include <linux/device.h>
>         +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>         +#include <linux/mfd/qcom_pm8008.h>
>         +#include <linux/module.h>
>         +#include <linux/of.h>
>         +#include <linux/of_device.h>
>
>     What in of_device.h is used?
>
>
> struct of_device_id

That struct is defined in mod_devicetable.h, not of_device.h

>
>
>
>         +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
>         +#include <linux/regmap.h>
>         +#include <linux/regulator/driver.h>
>         +
[...]
>
>
>         +};
>         +
>         +static int pm8008_regulator_get_voltage(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
>         +{
>         +       struct pm8008_regulator *pm8008_reg = rdev_get_drvdata(rdev);
>         +
>         +       return pm8008_reg->voltage_selector;
>
>     Can this read the hardware instead of caching the value from
>     pm8008_regulator_set_voltage()?
>
>
> I can use the regmap_bulk_read like below (which was present in the earlier
> versions)

Please do

>         +       }
>         +
>         +       pm8008_reg->dev = dev;
>         +
>         +       rc = of_property_read_string(dev->of_node, "regulator-name", &name);
>         +       if (rc)
>         +               return rc;
>         +
>         +       /* get the required regulator data */
>         +       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(reg_data); i++)
>         +               if (strstr(name, reg_data[i].name))
>
>     Why not find this via reg/address instead? It would save storing the
>     regulator name in the reg_data table.
>
>
> You mean match this using base address? then we should add base address in the
> reg_data table. We will need the name to be stored in reg_data table anyway for
> the pm8008_reg->rdesc.of_match

Why? Now that this driver binds to each node individually the usage of
of_match doesn't make any sense to me. Can you set 'struct
regulator_config::dev' instead and not set of_match?