Re: Overo broken after recent mainline merge

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Saturday 14 March 2009, Mark Brown wrote:
> > A third approach (after applying that one patch that's
> > in the regulator-next tree) would be
> 
> >       if (rdev->is_enabled() > 0)
> >               rdev->use_count = 1;
> 
> That won't work with consumers that can share their supply - they can't
> tell if the regulator was enabled because it was left on at startup or
> if it was enabled by some other consumer.

It works *exactly* like it would if the bootloader were
able to poke the "boot_on" flag for each regulator it
left enabled.

It also helps that the typical scenario I need to care
about is where there's only one consumer ... but in any
case, the change sketched above can't add new problems.

- Dave

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