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

From: Laxman Dewangan
Date: Wed Mar 30 2016 - 09:40:23 EST



On Saturday 19 March 2016 02:05 PM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

On Saturday 19 March 2016 10:01 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Generally the device driver should describe the PMIC and the device
tree should describe the board. So the Maxim's numbers should (if
specified at all) go into the driver and the measures/calculated
characteristics for your board should be specified in the dt.

The ramp properties in the generic regulator binding is used to inform
the OS about the board's ramp properties.


If I understand you correctly the Maxim PMIC can be configured to
drive the change at different speed, this should be configured through
a Maxim specific property. It should not reuse the generic properties
for ramp delays.


Ramp delay configurations are seen on other vendor's PMIC devices also.
Therefore, I like o me generic property rather than specific to Maxim. Parsing can be done in the core framework and applied during setting machine constraints.

Any comment on this approach?

Like to add property as "regulator-device-ramp-delay" which will be used for PMIC configuration and regulator-ramp-delay will be used for delay calculation. This is case when advertised ramp delay does not match with the platform measured ramp delay.

If regulator-device-ramp-delay is not provided from platform then regulator-ramp-delay will be used for PMIC configuration as well as for the delay calculation. This is case when advertised ramp delay match with the platform measured ramp delay.