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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Chen Fan <fan.chen@mediatek.com>,
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	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
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	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] cpufreq: mediatek: add Mediatek cpufreq driver
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:16:42 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKohponaQYYgYFAbpY3KZjt4+QhjBsqQtEpG5QpdMH0p__YUEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426074142.30734.7.camel@pengutronix.de>

On 11 March 2015 at 17:12, Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Instead of creating virtual regulators I would be strongly in favor of
> reviving the voltage-domain work. That would allow us to push all those
> voltage dependencies we have seen on various SoCs into the domain
> handling code and don't care about it in the drivers.
>
> In that case cpufreq-dt wouldn't control a regulator directly, but
> request a specific voltage from the domain the CPUs are located in and
> those in turn would control the regulators supplying them.

I agree that it would be the right approach but who is going to do that stuff ?

I think until the time we revive the voltage-domain stuff we need to support
mediatek's driver. And probably a virtual regulator is the best approach
unless someone else comes up with another idea.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-11 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04  8:49 [PATCH v2 0/4] cpufreq: add cpufreq driver for Mediatek MT8173 SoC pi-cheng.chen
2015-03-04  8:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] cpufreq-dt: add clock domain and intermediate frequency support pi-cheng.chen
2015-03-04 10:15   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-04 10:17     ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-05  3:32     ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-05  3:58       ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-05  7:28         ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-04  8:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] cpufreq: dt-bindings: add bindings for mtk-cpufreq driver pi-cheng.chen
2015-03-04 10:29   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-04  8:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] cpufreq: mediatek: add Mediatek cpufreq driver pi-cheng.chen
2015-03-04 11:09   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-05  7:27     ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-05  9:55       ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-06  5:49         ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-10  2:50           ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-11 10:53             ` Mark Brown
2015-03-11 11:03               ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-11 11:42                 ` Lucas Stach
2015-03-11 11:46                   ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2015-03-11 12:46                     ` Mark Brown
2015-03-11 12:45                 ` Mark Brown
2015-03-12  9:28                   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-12 11:15                     ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-18  6:59                       ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-09 16:28   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-10  1:57     ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-04  8:49 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ARM64: dts: mediatek: add cpufreq dts for MT8173 SoC pi-cheng.chen

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