Re: [PATCH v4 11/14] regulator: max77802: Document binding for regulator operating modes

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Nov 04 2014 - 05:50:39 EST


On pon, 2014-11-03 at 15:40 +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Some regulators from the max77802 PMIC support to be configured in one
> of two operating mode: Output ON (normal) and Output On Low Power Mode.
> Not all regulators support these two modes and for some of them, the
> mode can be changed while the system is running in normal operation
> while others only support their mode to be changed on system suspend.
>
> Extend the max77802 PMIC bindin by documenting the possible operating
> modes values so the regulators modes can be correctly configured.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v4: None
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Use the standard suspend states bindings as suggested by Mark Brown.
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
> index 5aeaffc..1a78ec2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
> @@ -25,6 +25,27 @@ with their hardware counterparts as follow. The valid names are:
> example: LDO1, LDO2, LDO35.
> -BUCKn : for BUCKs, where n can lie in range 1 to 10.
> example: BUCK1, BUCK5, BUCK10.
> +
> +The max77802 regulator supports two different operating modes: Normal and Low
> +Power Mode. Some regulators support the modes to be changed at startup or by
> +the consumers during normal operation while others only support to change the
> +mode during system suspend. The standard regulator suspend states binding can
> +be used to configure the regulator operating mode.
> +
> +The regulators that support the standard "regulator-initial-mode" property,
> +changing their mode during normal operation are: LDOs 1, 3, 20 and 21.
> +
> +The possible values for "regulator-initial-mode" and "regulator-mode" are:
> + 1: Normal regulator voltage output mode.
> + 3: Low Power which reduces the quiescent current down to only 1uA
> +
> +The list of valid modes are defined in the dt-bindings/regulator/regulator.h
> +header and can be included by device tree source files.

The more he looked inside, the more regulator.h wasn't there.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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