On Wednesday 14 September 2016 05:26 PM, Przemyslaw Marczak wrote:
Hello Keerthy,

On 09/14/2016 10:24 AM, Keerthy wrote:
Hi Marczak,

On Wednesday 14 September 2016 01:33 PM, Przemyslaw Marczak wrote:
Hello Keerthy,

On 09/14/2016 06:28 AM, Keerthy wrote:
The ctrl reg contains bit fields to enable and disable regulators,
and volt_reg has the bit fields to configure the voltage values.
The registers are frequently accessed hence make them part
of dm_regulator_uclass_platdata structure.

Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keer...@ti.com>
---
  include/power/regulator.h | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/power/regulator.h b/include/power/regulator.h
index 9bcd728..57b14a3 100644
--- a/include/power/regulator.h
+++ b/include/power/regulator.h
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ struct dm_regulator_uclass_platdata {
      bool boot_on;
      const char *name;
      int flags;
+    u8 ctrl_reg;
+    u8 volt_reg;
  };
    /* Regulator device operations */

This structure above is used for some common "high-level" data, which
can be used by regulator uclass driver.

Even if most of PMICs has some ctrl/volt/etc regs, the regulator uclass
driver doesn't know, how to use it, so from this point of view it is
useless.

But, you can keep device/driver data in a proper fields. Please look at
those files:

drivers/power/regulator/fixed.c:119
drivers/power/regulator/pfuze100.c:567

To store some device internal data, you can use:
.platdata_auto_alloc_size -> with access by dev_get_platdata()
.priv_auto_alloc_size -> with access by dev_get_priv()

Thanks for a quick review. I did look at some of those options before
introducing volt and ctrl here.

Many PMICs will have ctrl/volt registers we might end up having lot of
private strutures with the same ctrl/volt fields. I agree uclass
driver will not know how to use it.

If i have to draw parallels from the kernel world regulator_desc is a
common structure which hosts vsel_reg/enable_reg fields.

Isn't it better to have a common structure instead of having a some
platform specific structure that might have the same fields?

Let me know your thoughts on this.


Best regards,




You are right and I agree with you that make things common is a good
approach.

At the begin of introducing this framework, I just wanted to provide a
simple user interface for regulators, so I didn't tried to put all
common things into a single structure, because not always it could be
useful.

The present structure layout seems to be a good representation of
regulator's node in the device-tree.

In the other hand, each driver can provide a static arrays with proper
data like reg/mask/etc,
the driver:
drivers/power/regulator/s5m8767.c- is a good example.

I'm not going to break your solution, but let's wait for Simon's opinion.

okay.


Best regards,
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