Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: arizona-ldo1: Do not control clocking from regulator

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Jun 11 2014 - 09:55:23 EST


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:59:26AM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:43:14PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > IIRC this was deliberately coded in this fashion on advice from the
> > hardware engineers - there was more going on with that register than
> > there might at first appear and some actual sync with the LDO. I
> > believe there was some different process to follow (possibly just
> > setting this mode all the time) when using an external regulator, though
> > it's also possible the hardware guys were just unsure at the time.

> I have had a good chat with the hardware engineers here and they
> are pretty adamant that the only constraint here is that we
> should never enable SUBSYS without 1.8V being supplied to the
> core.

OK, that sounds like the advice when the device was first produced was
not accurate - might be worth checking your datasheets here. Might also
be worth updating the commit log.

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