Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] regulator: mt6323: Add support for MT6323 regulator

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 14:39:30 EST


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 08:11:19PM +0800, menghui lin wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 12:27 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > None of this is answering my question - I know what the current API is,
> > describing it doesn't tell me about actual users or how they are able to
> > sensibly use the interface. Bear in mind that the definitions of the
> > various modes are all relative and what one device thinks is high usage
> > may be low usage for another device.

> Assuming valid_modes_mask and initial_mode are specified, a possible
> way to modify regulator_set_mode() is to allow mode change only if the
> regulator is controlled exclusively by a certain consumer or the
> requested mode provides stronger power capability than current mode.
> Here I assume that power capability fast > normal > idle > standby.

...and I also note that the above *still* doesn't answer my questions
above.

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