Re: [PATCH] regulator: max8973: add regulator driver support

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:55:47AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The thing I'd like to see factored out here is the LRU mechanism,
> > otherwise I think the situation is pretty good.  Some of the older
> > devices should use a different scheme to modern ones as the hardware
> > they have to interoperate is different.

> So, do you consider the LRU algorithm to be the preferred way to configure 
> such regulators? I realise that in practice it will work well in most 

Well, there's not really many other options.

> cases, usually users do only want to preconfigure such a regulator to 2 
> fixed voltages and switch between them at runtime, right? OTOH, do you 
> think it is too unlikely, that someone will want to switch, say, between 3 
> voltages: X-Y-Z-X-Y-Z-X...? In this case the LRU will just lead to 
> constantly reprogramming the regulator. Whereas if the user had a way to 
> say "configure context A to X," "B to Y," and then only reprogram B 
> between voltages Y and Z, we'd save 1/3 of re-configuration accesses? 
> Maybe even in some such case, quickly switching to voltage X is more 
> important than to voltage Y or Z.

Modern devices tend to use multiple GPIOs for this control for a jolly
good reason.  If you've only got two levels then the wm831x algorithm is
probably the most sensible.

> > > > Add regulator driver for this device.

> > *ALWAYS* delete irrelevant text when replying.

> Not sure what you mean, sorry. If you mean all the text, that followed the 
> above line, then it wasn't all irrelevant, there were more comments down 
> there. OTOH, if you just meant, that I could have deleted even more text, 
> than what I've done, then right, sorry, there's always a balance between 

I actually thought you'd just quoted the entire mail and just deleted
the rest after a couple of screenfuls so a bit of both.  

> deleting too little and too much, and the decision is subjective. I 
> usually tend to keep somewhat more, tnan most would consider required, I 
> think, it is easier to hit "Page Down" a couple more times, than to have 
> to guess what the missing context was. But I'll try to reduce unneeded 
> context next time.

The extra content is profoundly unhelpful to people reading on phones,
and to people on slow connections (I spend an awful lot of time in
hotels with dodgy internet access for example).  It also (as happened to
me) makes it hard to find new comments in the middle of reams of stuff
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