Re: [PATCH 05/73] ARM: ux500: Vsmps3 controlled by SysClkReq1

From: Lee Jones
Date: Tue Feb 05 2013 - 08:03:14 EST


On Tue, 05 Feb 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
> > What is needed is some way to model that
> > electronic relationship into both the regulator
> > and clock subsystems (Ulf Hansson is working on
> > the ABx500 clocks as we speak.)
>
> > Maybe the actual place to have it would be
> > somewhere like drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c.
>
> > Have you seen similar stuff in other PMICs?
>
> Yes, it's fairly common to at least have hardware enable signals. If
> what was going on was actually understood by the driver in some way it
> might be better but right now... Especially in a series like this it's
> really bad to just see loads of patches which boil down to "change the
> semi-documented magic value" - this just makes the series depressing to
> read.

I'm currently working on making _slightly_ less depressing - bear with. :)

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