From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] A new Subsystem for Current Management Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:09:20 +0000 Message-ID: <20111109120919.GB31441@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20111106141302.40365383@endymion.delvare> <20111108165426.GB21630@sirena.org.uk> <20111108175749.2ef50f93@endymion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:33738 "EHLO opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754285Ab1KIMJW (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2011 07:09:22 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111108175749.2ef50f93@endymion.delvare> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Jean Delvare Cc: "R, Durgadoss" , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Alan Cox , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 05:57:49PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:54:26 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > Actually the regulator API isn't really about power savings - it's about > > voltage and current regulation. Higher layers can use these features to > > save power but it's not somethnig the regulator API cares about. If the > > documentation suggests it is we might want to fix that up. > I came up to this conclusion after reading the CONFIG_REGULATOR help > text in Kconfig. I'll let you decide if this should get improved in any > way. I think the current text is OK, it's saying that it allows other subsystems do things which save power which is what's happening.