[alsa-devel] [PATCH 4/4 v2] regulator: arizona-ldo1: Do not control clocking from regulator

Charles Keepax ckeepax at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Mon Jun 23 18:29:22 CEST 2014


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 04:53:37PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 09:53:49PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > > From: Richard Fitzgerald <rf at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> > > 
> > > Using the driver for the internal regulator to also control
> > > the clock frequency of blocks inside the codec is an
> > > unexpected side-effect for a regulator, and also means that
> > > the core clocks won't be changed as expected if an external
> > > regulator is used to power the codec.
> > > 
> > > The clocking control is now handled by the core arizona MFD
> > > driver so can be removed from the LDO1 driver.
> > 
> > I would expect this to be squashed into the first patch since otherwise
> > there's a bisection issue with both drivers trying to maintain the same
> > thing at the same time.
> 
> Whilst there are two things controlling it for a couple of
> patches they both set the same value one after another, so it
> should be safe. If it goes into the first patch nothing is
> controlling the DVFS for a few patches so that actually creates a
> bisection issue. It could be squashed into the second last patch
> but this way feels cleaner?

Although looking at that again it can happily merge into the
second patch in the series so I will do that.

Thanks,
Charles


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