Regulator Machine Driver Interface =================================== The regulator machine driver interface is intended for board/machine specific initialisation code to configure the regulator subsystem. Consider the following machine :- Regulator-1 -+-> Regulator-2 --> [Consumer A @ 1.8 - 2.0V] | +-> [Consumer B @ 3.3V] The drivers for consumers A & B must be mapped to the correct regulator in order to control their power supply. This mapping can be achieved in machine initialisation code by creating a struct regulator_consumer_supply for each regulator. struct regulator_consumer_supply { struct device *dev; /* consumer */ const char *supply; /* consumer supply - e.g. "vcc" */ }; e.g. for the machine above static struct regulator_consumer_supply regulator1_consumers[] = { { .dev = &platform_consumerB_device.dev, .supply = "Vcc", },}; static struct regulator_consumer_supply regulator2_consumers[] = { { .dev = &platform_consumerA_device.dev, .supply = "Vcc", },}; This maps Regulator-1 to the 'Vcc' supply for Consumer B and maps Regulator-2 to the 'Vcc' supply for Consumer A. Constraints can now be registered by defining a struct regulator_init_data for each regulator power domain. This structure also maps the consumers to their supply regulator :- static struct regulator_init_data regulator1_data = { .constraints = { .min_uV = 3300000, .max_uV = 3300000, .valid_modes_mask = REGULATOR_MODE_NORMAL, }, .num_consumer_supplies = ARRAY_SIZE(regulator1_consumers), .consumer_supplies = regulator1_consumers, }; Regulator-1 supplies power to Regulator-2. This relationship must be registered with the core so that Regulator-1 is also enabled when Consumer A enables it's supply (Regulator-2). The supply regulator is set by the supply_regulator_dev field below:- static struct regulator_init_data regulator2_data = { .supply_regulator_dev = &platform_regulator1_device.dev, .constraints = { .min_uV = 1800000, .max_uV = 2000000, .valid_ops_mask = REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE, .valid_modes_mask = REGULATOR_MODE_NORMAL, }, .num_consumer_supplies = ARRAY_SIZE(regulator2_consumers), .consumer_supplies = regulator2_consumers, }; Finally the regulator devices must be registered in the usual manner. static struct platform_device regulator_devices[] = { { .name = "regulator", .id = DCDC_1, .dev = { .platform_data = ®ulator1_data, }, }, { .name = "regulator", .id = DCDC_2, .dev = { .platform_data = ®ulator2_data, }, }, }; /* register regulator 1 device */ platform_device_register(®ulator_devices[0]); /* register regulator 2 device */ platform_device_register(®ulator_devices[1]);