Re: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: tegra: roth: add display DT node

[Mark Brown <broonie-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:16:32PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:35:27AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> > > vdd-2v8-display needs to remain always-on however. Here we may hit a
> > > limitation of the simple-panel driver, where only one power supply can
> > > be provided.

> > Can't we fix the simple-panel driver to allow a list of regulators in
> > the property?

> I have no objection to allowing that. But I don't think there's a way to
> do that with the current regulator API. You can use the bulk API, but
> that requires separate properties, not multiple regulators in one
> property.

> Perhaps one idea to solve this would be to make the regulator API return
> a regulator handle that in fact controls an array of regulators? Adding
> Mark.

I'm really not comfortable with that idea, it seems like most of the
users would be abusing it - one of the biggest issues is always getting
people to understand that their driver may be used in other systems with
the supplies mapped differently.  If you were going to do something
along those lines you'd need to do something that enumerated all the
supply properties on the device.

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