Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] regulator: dt-bindings: add QCOM RPMh regulator bindings

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 08:50:22AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It's got to be valid to think about the voltage of a disabled regulator
> > since drivers want to be able make sure that the regulator gets enabled
> > with a sensible config.  With most hardware this is really easy since
> > you can just look at the status reported by the hardware but the RPM
> > makes this hard since there's so much write only stuff in there.

> I should be more clear.  Certainly it should be valid to set the
> voltage before enabling it so, as you said, the regulator turns on at
> the right voltage.  I'm saying that it's weird (to me) to expect that
> setting the voltage for a regulator that a client thinks is disabled
> will affect any real voltages in the system until the regulator is
> enabled.  In RPMh apparently setting a voltage of a regulator you
> think is disabled can affect the regulator output if another client
> (unbeknownst to you) happens to have it enabled.

Yes, that's definitely not what's expected but it's unfortunately what
the firmware chose to implement so we may well be stuck with it
unfortunately.

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