Regulators
This subsystem provides control of voltage and current regulators. A common example is a GPIO that controls a transistor that supplies current to a device that is not always needed.
Conceptually regulators have two modes: off and on. A transition
between modes may involve a time delay, so operations on regulators are
inherently asynchronous. To maximize flexibility the
On-Off Manager infrastructure is used in the generic API for
the regulator subsystem. Nodes with a devicetree compatible of
regulator-fixed are the most common flexible regulators.
In some cases the transitions are close enough to instantaneous that the
the asynchronous driver implementation is not needed, and the resource
cost in RAM is not justified. Such a regulator still uses the
asynchronous API, but may be implemented internally in a way that
ensures the result of the operation is presented before the transition
completes. Zephyr recognizes devicetree nodes with a compatible of
regulator-fixed-sync as devices with synchronous transitions.
The vin-supply devicetree property is used to identify the
regulator(s) that a devicetree node directly depends on. Within the
driver for the node the regulator API is used to issue requests for
power when the device is to be active, and release the power request
when the device shuts down.
The simplest case where a regulator is needed is one where there is only
one client. For those situations the cost of using even the optimized
synchronous regulator device infrastructure is not justified, and the
supply-gpios devicetree property should be used. There is no device
interface to these regulators as they are entirely controlled within the
driver for the corresponding node, e.g. a sensor.
API Reference
- group regulator_interface
Regulator Interface.
Functions
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static inline int regulator_enable(const struct device *reg, struct onoff_client *cli)
Enable a regulator.
Reference-counted request that a regulator be turned on. This is an asynchronous operation; if successfully initiated the result will be communicated through the
cliparameter.A regulator is considered “on” when it has reached a stable/usable state.
Note
This function is isr-ok and pre-kernel-ok.
- Parameters
reg – a regulator device
cli – used to notify the caller when the attempt to turn on the regulator has completed.
- Returns
non-negative on successful initiation of the request. Negative values indicate failures from onoff_request() or individual regulator drivers.
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static inline int regulator_disable(const struct device *reg)
Disable a regulator.
Release a regulator after a previous regulator_enable() completed successfully.
If the release removes the last dependency on the regulator it will begin a transition to its “off” state. There is currently no mechanism to notify when the regulator has completely turned off.
This must be invoked at most once for each successful regulator_enable().
Note
This function is isr-ok.
- Parameters
reg – a regulator device
- Returns
non-negative on successful completion of the release request. Negative values indicate failures from onoff_release() or individual regulator drivers.
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struct regulator_driver_api
- #include <regulator.h>
Driver-specific API functions to support regulator control.
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static inline int regulator_enable(const struct device *reg, struct onoff_client *cli)