Re: [PATCH 2/5] regulator: Add driver for Maxim 77802 PMIC regulators

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 06:54:22 EST


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 01:29:17AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 06/09/2014 09:38 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:37:47AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> >> + case REGULATOR_MODE_STANDBY: /* switch off */
> >> + if (id != MAX77802_LDO1 && id != MAX77802_LDO20 &&
> >> + id != MAX77802_LDO21 && id != MAX77802_LDO3) {
> >> + val = MAX77802_OPMODE_STANDBY;
> >> + break;
> >> + }
> >> + /* no break */

> > This sounds very broken...

> The problem is that not all regulators supports the same operational modes. For
> instance regulators LDO 1, 20, 21 and 3 does not support REGULATOR_MODE_STANDBY
> so if the condition is not met a break is not needed since the default case is
> to warn that the mode is not supported.

No, it's the "switch off" comment...

> But I'll rework that logic on v2 to make it cleaner and have a break on each
> case and don't rely on case cascading.

...though you should also consider splitting things up so you have
separate ops for separate regulators if they behave differently.

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