Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:10:45 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: Would devm_regulator_enable be useful ? |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:27:26PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:21:52PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > As previously mentioned please fix your mailer to word wrap at a > > sensible limit.
> I thought I did ;-). I'll try to make sure I only send e-mail to you > using mutt in the future ... but I notice that your line length is > less than the one I configured, so maybe that is the problem here.
You need to allow some room for quoting.
> > In both cases enabling and then leaving the resource enabled throughout > > the runtime of the device isn't normally the best practice for using > > them. You usually want to enable and disable at runtime with mechanisms > > like runtime PM when the device is idle rather than burning power all > > the time and once you start doing that managed resources don't fit so > > well.
> Ok, I accept that. I thought that was what devm_xxx_[disable,remove] etc > was for, though.
Sort of. They're there but that doesn't mean that they should be used in normal operation - they should be special cases, not normal things. Managed resources are supposed to for things that are more fire and forget. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |