Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752353Ab3FDJIl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:08:41 -0400 Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:44497 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751620Ab3FDJIj (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:08:39 -0400 Message-ID: <51ADAE78.4050900@ti.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:38:08 +0530 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: Laxman Dewangan , "lgirdwood@gmail.com" , "sameo@linux.intel.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "gg@slimlogic.co.uk" , "ian@slimlogic.co.uk" , "balbi@ti.com" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: palmas: enable all modes for SMPS10 References: <1369911393-25747-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <20130530113247.GI5180@sirena.org.uk> <51A74D70.5060303@nvidia.com> <20130601184511.GC16790@sirena.org.uk> <51AA456E.3030307@nvidia.com> <20130601210511.GT16790@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130601210511.GT16790@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 27 Hi, On Sunday 02 June 2013 02:35 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 12:33:10AM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >> On Sunday 02 June 2013 12:15 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> No, that makes no sense at all to me. Why do you think this maps onto >>> the set mode API? Modes are all about accuracy of regulation. > >> I mapped this to the regulation under different load, Fast mode is >> in heavy load and so boost enable, normal/idle mode for normal load >> and so bypass. > > 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? Thanks Kishon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/