08.05.2019 10:55, Mark Brown пишет: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 08:59:34PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >> Right now regulator core supports only one type of regulators coupling, >> the "voltage max-spread" which keeps voltages of coupled regulators in a >> given range. A more sophisticated coupling may be required in practice, >> one example is the NVIDIA Tegra SoC's which besides the max-spreading >> have other restrictions that must be adhered. Introduce API that allow >> platforms to provide their own custom coupling algorithms. > > This is really concerning since it's jumping straight to open coding the > algorithm in platform specific code which isn't great, especially since > that platform specific code is now going to have to handle all possible > board specific restrictions that might be found on that platform. Why > is it not possible to express the rules that exist in a more general > fashion which can be encoded in drivers? I'm not thrilled about later > patches that export core functionality for platform specific use either. > Indeed, it's absolutely not the part of the idea that platform specific code will be handling board specifics as well. I just wanted to KISS for the first draft and will change that for a more generic solution in the next revision.
