linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/73] ARM: ux500: Vsmps3 controlled by SysClkReq1

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Message-ID: <20130205130302.GA2042@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:03:02 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bengt Jonsson <bengt.g.jonsson@...ricsson.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/73] ARM: ux500: Vsmps3 controlled by SysClkReq1

On Tue, 05 Feb 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> > What is needed is some way to model that
> > electronic relationship into both the regulator
> > and clock subsystems (Ulf Hansson is working on
> > the ABx500 clocks as we speak.)
> 
> > Maybe the actual place to have it would be
> > somewhere like drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c.
> 
> > Have you seen similar stuff in other PMICs?
> 
> Yes, it's fairly common to at least have hardware enable signals.  If
> what was going on was actually understood by the driver in some way it
> might be better but right now...  Especially in a series like this it's
> really bad to just see loads of patches which boil down to "change the
> semi-documented magic value" - this just makes the series depressing to
> read.

I'm currently working on making _slightly_ less depressing - bear with. :)

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