Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: DT: Add support to scale ramp delay based on platform behavior

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Mon Feb 29 2016 - 12:48:05 EST


On Mon 29 Feb 06:40 PST 2016, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

> It is observed that voltage change in given rail affected by the load
> and the capacitor in the rail. This may cause the slow ramp in voltage
> against what PMIC has programmed.
>
> The property regulator-ramp-delay provides the ramp delay configuration
> for PMIC but actual voltage settling time may change based on platform.
>
> Add new property "regulator-ramp-delay-scale" for platform specific scaling
> in final ramp delay calculation. On this case, final wait delay time
> for voltage change is calculated as the
> DIV_ROUND_UP(ramp_delay * ramp_delay_scale, 100)
>
> The value is provided in the term of percentage i.e. 300% means it will
> do the 3x delay of calculated value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

The regulator-ramp-delay is a variable you can tweak on a board basis,
so I'm not sure what benefit it gives to be able to add a scaling
factor to this.

In my experience your HW engineer will say "you have to wait X ms", not
"you have to wait 125% of X ms".


Can you please elaborate on why the original knob isn't sufficient?

Regards,
Bjorn

> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
> index 1d112fc..f2e8360 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
> @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ Optional properties:
> - regulator-ramp-delay: ramp delay for regulator(in uV/uS)
> For hardware which supports disabling ramp rate, it should be explicitly
> initialised to zero (regulator-ramp-delay = <0>) for disabling ramp delay.
> +- regulator-ramp-delay-scale: Platform specific scaling in ramp delay to
> + provide extra guard time to settle down voltage after its change. This will
> + help to wait for extra time for voltage settling based on platform behavior.
> + This is provided in terms of percentage scaling like 300% means final delay
> + will become 3x of calculated ramp delay for voltage change.
> + The final delay is calculated as:
> + delay = DIV_ROUND_UP(ramp-delay * ramp-delay-scale, 100)
> - regulator-enable-ramp-delay: The time taken, in microseconds, for the supply
> rail to reach the target voltage, plus/minus whatever tolerance the board
> design requires. This property describes the total system ramp time
> --
> 2.1.4
>