Re: [PATCH] regulator: Allow set voltage on fixed regulators

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:07:58PM -0700, Tim Kryger wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > This seems like the wrong place to fix this, it's nothing to do with DT
> > and we shouldn't require that nonsensical permissions are set.  Instead
> > we should fix this at the point where we're implementing the permission
> > check, have the failure case check the current voltage before returning
> > an error.

> Are you saying that REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE and
> REGULATOR_CHANGE_CURRENT are nonsense?

Flagging that it's possible to change the voltage of a fixed voltage
regulator is nonsense.

> It does seem like, even in the non-DT case, that the decision of
> whether to call the underlying set_voltage and set_current functions
> could be made solely based on the numerical voltage and current
> constraints.

The reason they're split is to encourage people to put the information
about what's supposed to work in there - you might know what the valid
range is but also know that the drivers are buggy and will break if they
try to actually vary the voltage.  But yes, in general you should never
have a range without the ability to use it once everything is working
properly so having one without the other at least indicates that things
aren't complete in the non-DT case.

It does also make the contract a bit clearer, one of the concerns
initially was that we wanted to be absolutely clear that the
machine integration was responsible for enabling the ability to change
things in case people broke boards.

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