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Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add support for SAW2 regulators

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On 12/18/2015 07:22 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:14:58PM +0200, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>> The SAW2 (Subsystem Power Manager and Adaptive Voltage Scaling Wrapper)
>> is part of the SPM subsystem. It is a hardware block found on some of the
>> Qualcomm chipsets, which regulates the power to the CPU cores. Add some
>> basic support for it, so that we can do dynamic voltage scaling.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c |  149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 
> Please don't implement regualtors outside of the regulator driver
> directory unless there is a really strong reason to do so, it makes it
> much easier to maintain the subsystem and keep track of what's going on.
> 

The reason of implementing the regulator functionality in drivers/soc is
that it is part of the same hardware. The saw2 hardware manages the power
controls - switching to low-power sleep modes, adaptive voltage scaling,
voltage control and messaging to the PMIC. Keeping all the functionality
of this hardware into a single driver seemed the suitable approach to me.
But if you think this is not a strong reason, then the approach probably
would be to export parts of the existing driver and use syscon from a
separate driver in drivers/regulator?

Thanks,
Georgi
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Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add support for SAW2 regulators Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org> - 2016-01-07 14:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add support for SAW2 regulators Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-12 03:40 +0100

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