linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] regulator: core: add API to get voltage constraints

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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 14:18:46 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
Cc:     linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        mturquette@...libre.com, sboyd@...eaurora.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        lgirdwood@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] regulator: core: add API to get voltage
 constraints

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:37:51PM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 10:43:51AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 10:47:44AM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 04:35:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote:

> > > > > Add API to get min/max rail voltage configured from platform for
> > > > > given rails.

> > > > because...

> > > of the next patch where this is used to retrieve the minimum rail voltage.

> > And that in turn is needed for...?

> To calculate the required voltage for each frequency.

You're going to have to provide a much better explanation of what this
is doing - right now it seems like an abuse of constraints.  Client
drivers can already determine if a particular voltage they want to set
is available via regulator_list_voltage() and so on, that's what
constraints are there to set.  It sounds like you're trying to use them
for something else but you're really not explaining your use case
clearly.

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