On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:46PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:44:32PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > > This doesn't seem right.  If this is useful we should just remove the
> > > > configuration for the fixed voltage regulator entirely as there's
> > > > nothing platform specific about this, and we probably ought to be going
> > > > through all the boards using "real" regulators adding selects for their
> > > > drivers too.

> > > Hm, why? Let's take smsc911x. The driver needs "some" regulators for its 
> > > two power pins. On different systems different regulators are used for 
> > > those supplies. It just happens to be the case, that many sh and 
> > > arm/mach-shmobile platform use the fixed voltage regulator for smsc911x 

> > What I'm saying is that that statement is equally true if you replace
> > "sh and arm/mach-shmobile platform" with "systems".

> So, you think, each board should select all required regulators 
> individually?

That's not what I wrote above (at least not for the fixed voltage
regulator).  But in general I'm not sure we're requiring that .configs
that people can generate do more than build.