Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: Add operation to let drivers select vsel register

From: Frieder Schrempf
Date: Thu Feb 16 2023 - 04:06:00 EST


Hi Mark,

On 14.02.23 22:06, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 04:58:22PM +0100, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
>> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> There are regulators that use multiple registers for storing the
>> voltage. Add a get_reg_voltage_sel member to struct regulator_ops in
>> order to let drivers register a function that returns the currently
>> used register.
>>
>> The pca9450 driver will be a user of this as the LDO5 regulator of
>> that chip uses two different control registers depending on the
>> state of an external signal.
>
> Aside from the build warnings the bots reported it's not clear to
> me that it's better to do this than it is to just have these
> drivers implement appropriate ops directly - there's probably
> going to be cases when it's a different bitfield in the same
> register, and by the time you've implemented the op so things
> aren't completely data driven I'm not sure how much you win by
> reusing the register read/write.

Thanks for the feedback. Makes sense to me, I can do that.

Just to be sure: you are suggesting to to leave the core untouched, use
the existing [get/set]_voltage() ops in the driver and reimplement the
logic of regulator_[get/set]_voltage_sel_regmap() there, right?

Thanks
Frieder