Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] dt-bindings: mfd: da9062: add regulator voltage selection documentation

[Marco Felsch]

Hi,

On 19-12-12 16:08, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:09 PM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I discussed it with a colleague again and he mentioned that pinctrl
> > should be named pinctrl instead it should be named padctrl.
> 
> Quoting Documentation/driver-api/pinctl.rst:
> 
> (...)
> Definition of PIN:
> 
> - PINS are equal to pads, fingers, balls or whatever packaging input or
>   output line you want to control and these are denoted by unsigned integers
>   in the range 0..maxpin.
> (...)

Okay there is the definition.

> > We don't
> > reconfigure the pad to a other function it is still a device general
> > purpose input pad. The hw-signal flow goes always trough the gpio block
> > so one argument more for my solution. Also we don't configure the "pad"
> > to be a vsel/ena-pin. The hw-pad can only be a gpio or has an alternate
> > function (WDKICK for GPIO0, Seq. SYS_EN for GPIO2, Seq. PWR_EN for GPIO4).
> > Instead we tell the regulator to use _this_ GPIO e.g. for voltage
> > selection so we go the other way around. My last argument why pinctrl
> > isn't the correct place is that the GPIO1 can be used for
> > regulator-0:vsel-in and for regulator-1:enable-in. So this pad would
> > have different states which is invalid IMHO.
> 
> Yeah it is just one of these cases where the silicon designer pulled
> a line of polysilicone over to the regulator enable signal and put a
> switch on it and say "so you can also enable the regulator
> with a signal from here", it can be used in parallel with anything
> else, which is especially messy.

I didn't say that the design isn't messy ;) I just wanna make the right
abstraction and IMHO this is the correct abstraction.

Regards,
  Marco

> Special cases require special handling, since the electronic design
> of this thing is a bit Rube Goldberg.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 

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