linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: palmas: enable all modes for SMPS10

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Message-ID: <20130604093816.GY31367@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:38:16 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
Cc:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	"lgirdwood@...il.com" <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	"sameo@...ux.intel.com" <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gg@...mlogic.co.uk" <gg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	"ian@...mlogic.co.uk" <ian@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	"balbi@...com" <balbi@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: palmas: enable all modes for SMPS10

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:38:08PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> On Sunday 02 June 2013 02:35 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >This is still not making any sense.  The quality of regulation and
> >output voltage are essentially orthogonal, and obviously there's a
> >specific API for bypass which is something different again to both
> >mode and output voltage selection.

> Do you recommend adding API's (similar to bypass) for BOOST and SWITCH?

No.  A boost regulator is still a voltage regulator, it just happens to
raise rather than lower the voltage but it's otherwise a normal
regulator.  I'm not sure what you mean by "SWITCH" - from the name it'd
just be a bypass?

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