From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: "Kim, Milo" <Milo.Kim@ti.com>,
"shreshthakumar.sahu@stericsson.com"
<shreshthakumar.sahu@stericsson.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"rpurdie@rpsys.net" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] leds-lm3530: add 'is_vin_always_on' in the lm3530_platform_data
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:31:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120123193122.GB26409@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbyK3eevSu3JeTzWguhJkSAm+8vmxymV03UhxhNQUtVsw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:13:18PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> As far as I know we want to get rid of different design patterns
> avoiding the regulator interface. The way forward for this is
> either:
> (A) Provide a fixed voltage regulator in your platform for this
> device (AFAIK the voltage does not even have to be correct)
> (B) Enable dummy regulators in your platform
> (A) is more elegant.
Yeah, regulator usage should essentially never be conditional at a
driver level unless there's actual optional supplies in the hardware.
The situation has never been any different to that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 19:31 UTC|newest]
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2012-01-20 1:48 ` [PATCH 3/7] leds-lm3530: add 'is_vin_always_on' in the lm3530_platform_data Kim, Milo
2012-01-23 19:13 ` Linus Walleij
2012-01-23 19:31 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-01-25 1:57 ` Kim, Milo
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