Re: [RFC PATCH 06/11] DT: regulator: Helper routine to extract fixed_voltage_config

[Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>]

On Thursday 15 September 2011 07:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:52:02PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>
>>   .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt    |   19 ++++++++++++
>>   drivers/of/of_regulator.c                          |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/linux/of_regulator.h                       |    7 ++++
>>   3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Again, this should be part of the regulator API code not hidden away
> where it will only get reviewed by device tree people.

Ok, will do.

>
>>   Required properties:
>>   - compatible: Must be "regulator";
>> +or
>> +- compatible: Must be "regulator-fixed"; /* For Fixed volatge regulator */
>
> This seems at best confusing - the fixed voltage regulator is a
> particular regulator driver, and the general concept of a fixed voltage
> regulator is still a subset of regulators.

Yeah, I will be defining the compatible based on the different regulator
types, fixed being one of them.
so they would be something like
- compatible: Must be "regulator-twl" for twl regulators
- compatible: Must be "regulator-fixed" for fixed regulators

>
>> +# For fixed voltage regulators
>> +- supply-name: Name of the regulator supply
>> +- microvolts: Output voltage of regulator
>> +- gpio: gpio to use for enable control
>> +- startup-delay: startup time in microseconds
>> +- enable-high: Polarity of enable GPIO, 1 = Active High, 0 = Active low
>> +- enabled-at-boot: 1 = yes, 0 = no
>
> Much of this is specific to the Linux fixed voltage regulator driver
> rather than a generic regulator with a fixed voltage.

So how should these non-generic things be handled through device
tree? Should they never be part of dt or should the bindings just be
defined such that its clear they are linux specific?