Re: [PATCH 5/8] regulator: introduce regulator_get_voltage_floor

From: Sascha Hauer
Date: Tue Oct 20 2015 - 08:27:03 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 05:50:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:45:28PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>
> > + num_voltages = regulator_count_voltages(regulator);
> > + if (num_voltages < 0)
> > + return num_voltages;
>
> > + for (i = 0; i < num_voltages; i++) {
> > + now = _regulator_list_voltage(regulator, i, 0);
> > + if (now < 0)
> > + continue;
> > + if (now < best && now >= min_uV)
> > + best = now;
> > + }
>
> Why is this not a factoring out of existing code (indeed it is itself a
> reimplementation of regulator_map_voltage_iterate())? This will also be
> a substantial performance loss in cases where we have a known mapping
> function - we should use a map_voltage() operation if one exists like we
> do in _do_set_voltage(). That has logic to handle missing mapping
> functions as a transition measure, now I look at it we should probably
> remove that code and just require that the mapping function is set if
> appropriate.

I didn't realize the map_voltage functionality is exactly what I want to
have. Turns out that I can factor out a regulator_map_voltage() function
instead of creating a regulator_get_voltage_floor() function. Updated
series follows shortly.

Sascha

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