linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Refactor Qualcomm RPM regulator to single platform

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:00:37 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
CC:	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Refactor Qualcomm RPM regulator to single platform_device

On 04/01/15 15:55, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> Stephen Boyd pointed out that the current design of the Qualcomm RPM and
> regulator driver consumes 12-20kB of ram just for the platform_device structs.
>
> This series starts with a new revision of the dt binding documentation for the
> rpm regulators, introduces the regulator-allow-drms property, remove the
> flagging of DRMS support from the qcom-rpm regulator driver, refactor the
> qcom_rpm-regulator driver to move all custom parse code to a function suitable
> for usage as of_parse_cb. The final patch defines the tables of registers and
> change the probe function to register the appropriate regulators based on pmic.
>
> As Stephen pointed out in his PATCH/RFC/argument [1], this gives a more
> accurate representation of input supplies, as they are now named as in the
> specification.
>
> Note that for platforms with multiple pmics (e.g. 8660 and 8974) will have
> multiple regulator subnodes to the rpm node - something that will be clearer
> with this binding than the previously suggested.

What happens with debugfs when you have multiple pmics with the same
named regulator? I thought that in this case we needed to make the names
unique somehow or we would end up with the same directory for two
different regulators.

-- 
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/