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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] dt-bindings: regulator: define a mux regulator
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:25 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> A mux regulator is used to provide current on one of several outputs. It
> might look as follows:
>
> ,------------.
> --<OUT0 A0 <--
> --<OUT1 A1 <--
> --<OUT2 A2 <--
> --<OUT3 |
> --<OUT4 EN <--
> --<OUT5 |
> --<OUT6 IN <--
> --<OUT7 |
> `------------'
>
> Depending on which address is encoded on the three address inputs A0, A1
> and A2 the current provided on IN is provided on one of the eight
> outputs.
>
> What is new here is that the binding makes use of a #regulator-cells
> property. This uses the approach known from other bindings (e.g. gpio)
> to allow referencing all eight outputs with phandle arguments. This
> requires an extention in of_get_regulator to use a new variant of
> of_parse_phandle_with_args that has a cell_count_default parameter that
> is used in absence of a $cell_name property. Even if we'd choose to
> update all regulator-bindings to add #regulator-cells = <0>; we still
> needed something to implement compatibility to the currently defined
> bindings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Hello,
>
> the obvious alternative is to add (here) eight subnodes to represent the
> eight outputs. This is IMHO less pretty, but wouldn't need to introduce
> #regulator-cells.

I'm okay with #regulator-cells approach.

>
> Apart from reg = <..> and a phandle there is (I think) nothing that
> needs to be specified in the subnodes because all properties of an
> output (apart from the address) apply to all outputs.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
> .../bindings/regulator/mux-regulator.yaml | 52 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/mux-regulator.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/mux-regulator.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/mux-regulator.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f06dbb969090
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/mux-regulator.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

(GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) is preferred.


> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/regulator/mux-regulator.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: MUX regulators
> +
> +properties:
> + compatible:
> + const: XXX,adb708

? I assume you will split this into a common and specific schemas. I
suppose there could be differing ways to control the mux just like all
other muxes.

> +
> + enable-gpios:
> + maxItems: 1
> +
> + address-gpios:
> + description: Array of typically three GPIO pins used to select the
> + regulator's output. The least significant address GPIO must be listed
> + first. The others follow in order of significance.
> + minItems: 1
> +
> + "#regulator-cells":

How is this not required?

> + const: 1
> +
> + regulator-name:
> + description: A string used to construct the sub regulator's names
> + $ref: "/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string"
> +
> + supply:
> + description: input supply
> +
> +required:
> + - compatible
> + - regulator-name
> + - supply
> +
> +
> +examples:
> + - |
> + mux-regulator {
> + compatible = "regulator-mux";
> +
> + regulator-name = "blafasel";
> +
> + supply = <&muxin_regulator>;
> +
> + enable-gpios = <&gpio2 5 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> + address-gpios = <&gpio2 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
> + <&gpio2 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
> + <&gpio2 4 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
> + };
> +...
> --
> 2.20.1
>

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