Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:41:27 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regulator: Provide dummy supply support |
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:03:56AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:27:21PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > As I think I said earlier I'd use the fixed regulator for this, all > > Sascha's actually doing here is adding a wrapper to simplify > > registration of that.
> There's one difference between the fixed and the dummy regulator though: > The fixed regulator has a voltage. The same dummy regulator instance can
No, the voltage is optional.
> be used for all devices which do not have a software controllable > regulator. I think the same can be done with the fixed regulator aswell, > but the bogus voltage showing up in the sysfs entry might be confusing > to users.
I don't think that's a meaningful issue, any in any case it'd be better practice to fill it in so devices can use the information if they want to (which really shouldn't be hard
> Another approach to this topic would be to allow a board to explicitely > bind to the existing dummy regulator, like the following (error path > should of course be implemented before applying this)
If you know you've got a fixed voltage supply I don't understand why you wouldn't want to set one up. There clearly is an actual supply in the system...
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