Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] regulator: regulator_get behaviour without CONFIG_REGULATOR set | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2010 19:19:47 +0100 |
| |
On 6 Apr 2010, at 17:25, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 04/06/10 16:27, Liam Girdwood wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> >> I suppose this is something we may look into more when we have more >> clients. > Makes sense. There will probably be quite a few IIO drivers over > the next > few months doing much the same as sht15, where the voltage ref for > devices > may well be fed by a regulator. In that case, we may only offer the > option > of using an external v_ref if the regulator is available. Many > devices have > an internal regulator to provide it so typically we'll start them up > using that > and provide an interface to switch to external regulator if one is > available. > I haven't thought through exactly how this will work as yet. I'll cc > people in > when this comes up.
TBH this seems like a very vanilla use case - there may be some small advantage to representing the internal regulator via the regulator API but that's about the only thing I can think might be a bit odd.
| |