Re: [PATCH v2 28/48] soc/tegra: Introduce core power domain driver

[Viresh Kumar]

On 23-12-20, 23:37, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 23.12.2020 08:57, Viresh Kumar пишет:
> > What's wrong with getting the regulator in the driver as well ? Apart from the
> > OPP core ?
> 
> The voltage syncing should be done for each consumer regulator
> individually [1].
> 
> Secondly, regulator core doesn't work well today if the same regulator
> is requested more than one time for the same device.

Hmm...

> >> will return the OPP table regulator in order to allow driver to use the
> >> regulator directly. But I'm not sure whether this is a much better
> >> option than the opp_sync_regulators() and opp_set_voltage() APIs.
> > 
> > set_voltage() is still fine as there is some data that the OPP core has, but
> > sync_regulator() has nothing to do with OPP core.
> > 
> > And this may lead to more wrapper helpers in the OPP core, which I am afraid of.
> > And so even if it is not the best, I would like the OPP core to provide the data
> > and not get into this. Ofcourse there is an exception to this, opp_set_rate.
> > 
> 
> The regulator_sync_voltage() should be invoked only if voltage was
> changed previously [1].
> 
> The OPP core already has the info about whether voltage was changed and
> it provides the necessary locking for both set_voltage() and
> sync_regulator(). Perhaps I'll need to duplicate that functionality in
> the PD driver, instead of making it all generic and re-usable by other
> drivers.
> 
> [1]
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10.2/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L4107

Lets do it in the OPP core and see where we go.

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viresh