Re: [PATCH 3/8] ARM: dts: imx7s: Adjust anatop-enable-bit for 'reg_1p0d'

From: Dong Aisheng
Date: Fri Apr 14 2017 - 11:33:00 EST


On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:32:37AM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> In PMU_REG_1P0Dn ENABLE_LINREG is bit 0. Bit 31 is called OVERRIDE and
> it serves the function of granting permission to GPC IP block to alter
> various bit-fields of the register. The reason why this property, that
> trickeld here from Freescale BSP, is set to 31 is because in the code
> it came from it is used in conjunction with a notifier handler for
> REGULATOR_EVENT_PRE_DO_ENABLE and REGULATOR_EVENT_PRE_DO_DISABLE
> events (not found in upstream kernel) that triggers GPC to start
> manipulating aforementioned other bitfields.
>
> Since:
> a) none of the aforementioned machinery is implemented by
> upstream
> b) using 'anatop-enable-bit' in that capacity is a bit of a
> semantic stretch

Yes, this does is a bit of semantic stretch.
FSL using is combined with regulator notify and that do bring a bit
of complexity.

I'm not sure if it's good to introduce another anatop-override-bit
to separate, but i'm a bit scare since there's already many....

>
> simplify the situation by setting the value of 'anatop-enable-bit' to
> point to ENABLE_LINREG (same as i.MX6).
>
> Cc: yurovsky@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi
> index 22c9788..8fee299 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi
> @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
> anatop-min-bit-val = <8>;
> anatop-min-voltage = <800000>;
> anatop-max-voltage = <1200000>;
> - anatop-enable-bit = <31>;
> + anatop-enable-bit = <0>;

The change of this line seems already exist in patch 1.

Regards
Dong Aisheng