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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: add regulator and GPIO support
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:41:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120705104120.GP4111@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120705080234.GQ30009@pengutronix.de>

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:02:34AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> So here the regulator core knows that there is no regulator and never
> will be. All that needs to be done is to make _regulator_get look at
> that value.

> There may be some side effects if we just return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) when
> regulator_dev_lookup returns -ENODEV. Maybe Mark has some comments to
> this.

I'm concerned about how this is going to interact with all the plans
people have for dynamically loading device tree fragments during
enumeration.

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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: add regulator and GPIO support
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 11:41:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120705104120.GP4111@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120705080234.GQ30009@pengutronix.de>

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:02:34AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> So here the regulator core knows that there is no regulator and never
> will be. All that needs to be done is to make _regulator_get look at
> that value.

> There may be some side effects if we just return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) when
> regulator_dev_lookup returns -ENODEV. Maybe Mark has some comments to
> this.

I'm concerned about how this is going to interact with all the plans
people have for dynamically loading device tree fragments during
enumeration.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-05 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-29 13:22 [PATCH] pwm-backlight: add regulator and GPIO support Alexandre Courbot
2012-06-29 13:22 ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-06-29 13:22 ` Alexandre Courbot
     [not found] ` <1340976167-27298-1-git-send-email-acourbot-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-06-29 16:04   ` Stephen Warren
2012-06-29 16:04     ` Stephen Warren
2012-06-29 16:04     ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]     ` <4FEDD222.7050905-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-06-30  3:54       ` Alex Courbot
2012-06-30  3:54         ` Alex Courbot
2012-06-30  3:54         ` Alex Courbot
2012-06-30 18:37   ` Thierry Reding
2012-06-30 18:37     ` Thierry Reding
2012-06-30 18:37     ` Thierry Reding
     [not found]     ` <20120630183742.GE23990-RM9K5IK7kjIyiCvfTdI0JKcOhU4Rzj621B7CTYaBSLdn68oJJulU0Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-02  3:35       ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-07-02  3:35         ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-07-02  3:35         ` Alexandre Courbot
     [not found]         ` <4FF116F0.5070602-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-02  6:46           ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-02  6:46             ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-02  6:46             ` Thierry Reding
     [not found]             ` <20120702064624.GA8683-RM9K5IK7kjIQXX3q8xo1gnVAuStQJXxyR5q1nwbD4aMs9pC9oP6+/A@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-02  7:18               ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-07-02  7:18                 ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-07-02  7:18                 ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-07-04 10:48   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 10:48     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 10:48     ` Sascha Hauer
     [not found]     ` <20120704104840.GJ24458-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-04 12:26       ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-04 12:26         ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-04 12:26         ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]         ` <4FF43692.2040805-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-04 12:27           ` Mark Brown
2012-07-04 12:27             ` Mark Brown
2012-07-04 12:27             ` Mark Brown
2012-07-04 13:00           ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 13:00             ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 13:00             ` Sascha Hauer
     [not found]             ` <20120704130056.GC30009-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-04 15:14               ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-04 15:14                 ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-04 15:14                 ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]                 ` <4FF45DDF.9000306-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-04 15:24                   ` Mark Brown
2012-07-04 15:24                     ` Mark Brown
2012-07-04 15:24                     ` Mark Brown
     [not found]                     ` <20120704152451.GA7333-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-05  2:36                       ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  2:36                         ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  2:36                         ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]                         ` <4FF4FDC0.8020405-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-05  6:20                           ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05  6:20                             ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05  6:20                             ` Sascha Hauer
     [not found]                             ` <20120705062011.GI30009-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-05  6:25                               ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  6:25                                 ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  6:25                                 ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]                                 ` <4FF53368.6090805-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-05  6:47                                   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05  6:47                                     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05  6:47                                     ` Sascha Hauer
     [not found]                                     ` <20120705064742.GL30009-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-05  7:43                                       ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  7:43                                         ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  7:43                                         ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]                                         ` <4FF5459F.5090201-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-05  7:57                                           ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-05  7:57                                             ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-05  7:57                                             ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-05  8:12                                             ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  8:12                                               ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05 16:03                                               ` Stephen Warren
2012-07-05 16:03                                                 ` Stephen Warren
2012-07-09  5:19                                                 ` Jingoo Han
2012-07-09  5:19                                                   ` Jingoo Han
     [not found]                                                   ` <00ae01cd5d92$70d1f9f0$5275edd0$%han-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-09  6:12                                                     ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-09  6:12                                                       ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-09  6:12                                                       ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-05  8:02                                           ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05  8:02                                             ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05  8:02                                             ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-05 10:41                                             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-07-05 10:41                                               ` Mark Brown
2012-07-05 10:39                                           ` Mark Brown
2012-07-05 10:39                                             ` Mark Brown
2012-07-05 10:39                                             ` Mark Brown
2012-07-05 10:37                                 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-05 10:37                                   ` Mark Brown
2012-07-04 20:26                   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 20:26                     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 20:26                     ` Sascha Hauer

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