Re: [PATCH] regulator: arizona-ldo1: Add ramp time for HI_PWR

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Tue Mar 24 2015 - 13:32:43 EST


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:40:50PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 09:06:09AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:27:56PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> >
> > > +static int arizona_ldo1_hc_set_voltage_time_sel(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
> > > + unsigned int old_selector,
> > > + unsigned int new_selector)
> > > +{
> > > + /* if moving to 1.8v allow time for it to reach voltage */
> > > + if (new_selector == rdev->desc->n_voltages - 1)
> > > + return 25;
> > > + else
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> >
> > So changes to move to the top voltage always take constant time while
> > all other voltage changes are instantaneous? That doesn't seem right.
> > I'd expect something more like a calculation based on some number of
> > miliseconds per milivolt.
>
> Its more just that this is the only case that we really care
> about. The reg only ever gets used at 1.2V and 1.8V, and the
> only case where there is a problem is if we ask for 1.8V and
> we don't have it yet.
>
> I don't think we really have the data to give for other cases. I
> could expand the comment perhaps? Or TBH it is fast enough it is
> unlikely to ever be a problem in practice so we could just drop
> the patch.

Oh, I had one other thought, what about if we just returned 25uS
as a worse case for the transition. Perhaps that would be nicer,
and the 1.2V -> 1.8V transition is almost certainly the slowest
of the options available.

Thanks,
Charles
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