RE: [RFC PATCH 2/8] regulator: Add Dialog DA906x voltage regulatorssupport.

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Thu, 9 May 2013, Anthony Olech wrote:

> Hi Guennadi,
> 
> without trying to step on our marketing department's toes, I can only 
> suggest that you slurp the online archives of the LKML and ALSA mailing 
> list.
> The Linux Kernel Mailing List archive that I use is: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel
> The ALSA mailing list archive that I use is: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel
> 
> I usually run a perl/bash/wget script to download stuff of interest.

I've got these patches from an online archive, thanks.

> I can answer questions about our Open Source submission (because they 
> are open source), but for definitive product information our marketing 
> department is the first place to try.
> 
> Do you mean the da7210 (audio CODEC)? I don't offhand recognise the da9210 part number.

No, my task description says "a da9210 PMIC." I think this one is meant:

http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/power-management/DA9210

Thanks
Guennadi

> Best regards,
> 
> Tony Olech
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guennadi Liakhovetski [mailto:g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 09 May 2013 15:29
> > To: Anthony Olech
> > Cc: Krystian Garbaciak; Mark Brown; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Samuel
> > Ortiz; Alessandro Zummo; Jean Delvare; Dmitry Torokhov; Richard Purdie
> > Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 2/8] regulator: Add Dialog DA906x voltage regulators
> > support.
> > 
> > Hi Tony
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 May 2013, Anthony Olech wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Guennadi Liakhovetski,
> > >
> > > Now that Krystian no longer works for Dialog I think that I might be
> > > your best contact.
> > > As far as I am aware without doing any checking, the DA906x driver
> > > should possibly cover the DA9063.
> > 
> > Good!
> > 
> > > If you need a driver, that would imply that you have some chips. Have
> > > you tried our marketting department?
> > 
> > Yes, this (and a da9210) PMICs are used on one of the boards, I'm working with.
> > I asked your marketing department for a da9210 datasheet, they tried to check
> > with the board vendor, who is also my customer for this project, and so far they
> > haven't been able to establish my involvement in this development. Have you
> > also got a da9210 Linux driver? Do I have to wait for your marketing
> > department clarifying my affiliation or could you make that driver available to
> > me too? Or do you mean you might have a newer version of this driver
> > available internally too?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Guennadi
> > 
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Tony Olech
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Guennadi Liakhovetski [mailto:g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: 09 May 2013 15:06
> > > > To: Krystian Garbaciak
> > > > Cc: Mark Brown; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Samuel Ortiz; Alessandro
> > > > Zummo; Jean Delvare; Dmitry Torokhov; Richard Purdie; Anthony Olech
> > > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] regulator: Add Dialog DA906x voltage
> > regulators
> > > > support.
> > > >
> > > > (trimmed the CC a bit)
> > > >
> > > > Hi Krystian
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Krystian Garbaciak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:50:00PM +0100, Krystian Garbaciak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for picking up a random mail from this old thread, unfortunately, I
> > don't
> > > > have "0/8" in my archive.
> > > >
> > > > I have to write a driver for the da9063 PMIC. Do you have an idea, whether
> > it'd
> > > > be compatible with this driver? Do you plan to continue your work on this
> > driver
> > > > or would you mind if I try to use these your patches and mainline them,
> > > > preserving your authorship and copyright, of course?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Guennadi
> > > >
> > > > > > > Because, for some regulators, this is required: val +=
> > > > > > > fvol->offset, I was only able to reduce it to the following form.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What on earth makes you say this?  The above is obviously linear.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Besides, you're missing several points here.  One is that you should
> > > > > > be using the framework features, another is that you should be
> > > > > > implementing _sel.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry, I've missed an obvious thing here. Instead of adding selector
> > > > > offset at runtime, I can substract apropriate voltage from .min_uV.
> > > > > Thanks for pointing this out.
> > > > >
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