Re: [PATCH] regulator: s5m8767: Disable OVCB in probe

[Kyungmin Park]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> According to SW Guide the Over-Voltage Clamp may malfunction at VBatt
>> 5.25V and 110'C temperature. This may result in overshooting or
>> undershooting LDO's voltage outputs.
>> Disable the Over-Voltage Clamp in probe by updating proper bit in all
>> LDO registers.
>
> Is there no way to detect these conditions at runtime?  The temperature
> condition in particular seems very high and hence relatively unlikely to
> hold most of the time, disabling the overvoltage protection all the time
> seems like an uncertain tradeoff.

It's hard to do at runtime. right it's rare case. but some condition
(as above) is meet, and no code as workaround. it's mal-function.
that's the guide to avoid this mal-functions.

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park
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