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…/git/lrg/voltage-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6: (41 commits) regulator: Add some brief design documentation regulator: fix voltage range in da9034 ldo12 regulator/driver: be more specific in nanodoc for is_enabled regulator/lp3971: drop unnecessary initialization regulator: drop 'default n' regulator: fix typos regulator: fix calculation of voltage range in da9034_set_ldo12_voltage() regulator: update a filename in documentation drivers/regulator/Kconfig: fix typo (s/Usersapce/Userspace/) in REGULATOR_USERSPACE_CONSUMER description REGULATOR Handle positive returncode from enable regulator: tps650xx - build fixes for x86_64 Fix some regulator documentation Regulator: Adding TPS65023 and TPS6507x in Kconfig and Makefile Regulator: Add TPS6507x regulator driver Regulator: Add TPS65023 regulator driver regulator: userspace: use sysfs_create_group regulator: Add GPIO enable control to fixed voltage regulator driver Regulator: Implement list_voltage for pcf50633 regulator driver. regulator: regulator_enable() permission checking regulator: Push locking for regulator_is_enabled() out ...
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Regulator API design notes | ||
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This document provides a brief, partially structured, overview of some | ||
of the design considerations which impact the regulator API design. | ||
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Safety | ||
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- Errors in regulator configuration can have very serious consequences | ||
for the system, potentially including lasting hardware damage. | ||
- It is not possible to automatically determine the power confugration | ||
of the system - software-equivalent variants of the same chip may | ||
have different power requirments, and not all components with power | ||
requirements are visible to software. | ||
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=> The API should make no changes to the hardware state unless it has | ||
specific knowledge that these changes are safe to do perform on | ||
this particular system. | ||
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Consumer use cases | ||
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- The overwhelming majority of devices in a system will have no | ||
requirement to do any runtime configuration of their power beyond | ||
being able to turn it on or off. | ||
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- Many of the power supplies in the system will be shared between many | ||
different consumers. | ||
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=> The consumer API should be structured so that these use cases are | ||
very easy to handle and so that consumers will work with shared | ||
supplies without any additional effort. |
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