Re: [RFC 5/8] regulator: anatop: fix min dropout for bypass mode

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 08:56:03 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 06:53:07PM +0200, Leonard Crestez wrote:

> + if (anatop_reg->bypass)
> + anatop_reg->rdesc.min_dropout_uV = 0;
> + else
> + anatop_reg->rdesc.min_dropout_uV = LDO_MIN_DROPOUT_UV;

No, this is completely broken - you can't expect to randomly change hthe
regulator description at runtime behind the back of the framework and
expect things to work. If there is a need to do this we need an
interface for getting the current value and a way to notify of changes.

That said I would not expect the dropout voltage to be considered at
all when the regulator is bypassed, since the regulator is not
regulating it doesn't need any headroom.

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