Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:27:53 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: pwm: DT: Add ramp delay for exponential voltage transition |
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> wrote: > > On Monday 14 November 2016 09:18 PM, Rob Herring wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:07:54PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >>> >>> Some PWM regulator has the exponential transition in voltage change as >>> opposite to fixed slew-rate linear transition on other regulators. >>> For such PWM regulators, add the property for providing the delay >>> from DT node. >>> >>> Add DT binding details of the new property >>> "pwm-regulator-voltage-ramp-time-us" added for providing voltage >>> transition delay. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> >>> CC: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> >>> CC: Aleksandr Frid <afrid@nvidia.com> >>> >>> --- >>> This patch is continuation of discussion on patch >>> regulator: pwm: Fix regulator ramp delay for continuous mode >>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9216857/ >>> where is it discussed to have separate property for PWM which has >>> exponential voltage transition. >>> --- >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/pwm-regulator.txt | 10 >>> ++++++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git >>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/pwm-regulator.txt >>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/pwm-regulator.txt >>> index 3aeba9f..a163f42 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/pwm-regulator.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/pwm-regulator.txt >>> @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ Optional properties: >>> -------------------- >>> - enable-gpios: GPIO to use to enable/disable the >>> regulator >>> +- pwm-regulator-voltage-ramp-time-us: Integer, voltage ramp time in >> >> This is a really long name. Drop the 'pwm-regulator-' part as it is >> redundant. The fact that it is PWM reg specific is captured as it is >> documented that way. >> > > We already have the regulator-ramp-delay from the regulator core. > Just wanted to make this (pwm-regulator-voltage-ramp-time-us) for pwm > specific.
Neither of these are very clear that one is linear and one is exponential. Maybe you should use the existing property to express the time and just add a boolean property like "voltage-ramp-exponential"?
> Can we have "pwm-regulator-ramp-delay" or "pwm-regulator-settling-time-us"?
How are those better? Same comment applies.
Rob
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