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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] regulator: handling of error conditions for usb drivers
Hi Mark,


On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Axel Haslam <ahaslam@baylibre.com> wrote:
> Some usb drivers rely on external power switches/regulators
> to for the port vbus. Some of these drivers are using
> a plain gpio for the enable pin and also the over current
> indicator pin.
>
> To make these drivers more generic, we can use a regulator
> to handle vbus, and send and over current event, but we are
> missing a way to transmit the over current pin status, which
> the usb layer may poll at any time.
>
> We would like to move these drivers to use a regulator, this
> would make the usb driver generic allowing to use any type
> of regulator. Also, it would help removing code, making DT
> migration simpler and avoiding new DT bindings for each driver.
>
> These patches do 2 things:
> * Add a new API, that consumers can use to poll the regulator
> error status.
> * Extends the fixed regulator driver to handle an optional
> over current gpio pin.
>
> Changes v2 -> v3
> * droped merged patch to add new API
> * rebased on top of regulator-next
>
> Changes v1->v2
> * add new API to get error status instead of extending events (Mark)
> * use gpiod for fixed regulator: This spears us extra platform
> data and bindings
>
> Axel Haslam (2):
> regulator: fixed: dt: Allow an optional over current pin
> regulator: fixed: Handle optional overcurrent pin


im wondering if you have these 2 patches in queue,
if there are no objections would it be possible to take them?

The DT binding is Acked by Rob, would you prefer
i resend them with the Ack tag?

Regards
Axel.

>
> .../bindings/regulator/fixed-regulator.txt | 2 +
> drivers/regulator/fixed.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
>
> --
> 2.10.1
>

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