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From: "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>
To: "Nayak, Rajendra" <rnayak@ti.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: "patches@linaro.org" <patches@linaro.org>,
	"tony@atomide.com" <tony@atomide.com>,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org"
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"grant.likely@secretlab.ca" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Girdwood, Liam" <lrg@ti.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:58:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E85768C.6050601@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E854532.6080605@ti.com>

On 9/30/2011 6:27 AM, Nayak, Rajendra wrote:

[...]

>> They need both.  We need to reference the device that provides the
>> supply and use a name to say which of the potentially multiple supplies
>> on the consumer device is which.
>
> Mark, I still seem to be a little confused with this one as to why
> we would need a phandle *and* a supply-name to reference a parent
> regulator/supply.
> The phandle would point to a regulator dt node and that node internally
> would have just one name associated with it.

I think as well that we should avoid considering a regulator with 
several outputs. I saw the same pattern used for the clock binding in DT 
as well.

A clock node like a regulator node should output only one signal.
These nodes should provide atomic functionality. And if extra 
functionality are needed we might consider adding some intermediate nodes.
Except for a regulator that will output several lines at the same 
voltage to spread the current load, assuming it does exist, I'm not sure 
to understand the need.

Mark,
What usage do you have in mind for such supply node with several outputs?

Regards,
Benoit

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 10:12 [PATCH 0/9] Device tree support for regulators Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 1/9] regulator: twl: Remove hardcoded board constraints from driver Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 11:37   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 14:47     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 2/9] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 12:10   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 14:48     ` Rajendra Nayak
     [not found]       ` <4E81E224.2070408-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-27 15:05         ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28  8:06           ` Cousson, Benoit
2011-09-30  4:27           ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-30  7:58             ` Cousson, Benoit [this message]
2011-09-30 10:49               ` Mark Brown
2011-09-30 10:28             ` Mark Brown
2011-09-30 10:48               ` Mark Brown
2011-09-30 11:09                 ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-30 11:35                   ` Cousson, Benoit
2011-09-30 12:18                   ` Mark Brown
2011-10-04  5:28                     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-04 10:18                       ` Mark Brown
2011-10-04 11:40                         ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-04 11:51                           ` Mark Brown
2011-10-04 12:02                             ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-04 12:11                               ` Mark Brown
2011-10-04 12:40                                 ` Nayak, Rajendra
     [not found]     ` <20110927121003.GB4289-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-30  1:24       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 23:01     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-04 23:48       ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 3/9] omap4: sdp: Pass regulator data from dt Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 4/9] regulator: twl: Make twl-regulator driver extract data from DT Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 12:14   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 14:48     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 5/9] regulator: helper routine to extract fixed_voltage_config Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 12:16   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 14:49     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 16:13       ` Mark Brown
     [not found]   ` <1317118372-17052-6-git-send-email-rnayak-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-30  1:26     ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 6/9] regulator: make fixed regulator driver extract data from dt Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-30  1:34   ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 7/9] omap4: panda: Pass regulator data from DT Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 8/9] regulator: helper to extract regulator node based on supply name Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 12:21   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 14:49     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 18:59       ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28  8:09         ` Cousson, Benoit
2011-09-28  8:18           ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-28 12:26           ` Mark Brown
2011-09-30  9:34             ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-30 10:35               ` Mark Brown
2011-10-04 17:00               ` Grant Likely
2011-09-28 10:56         ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-30  1:36   ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 10:12 ` [PATCH 9/9] regulator: map consumer regulator based on device tree Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-27 12:23   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 14:49     ` Rajendra Nayak
     [not found]   ` <1317118372-17052-10-git-send-email-rnayak-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-30  1:38     ` Grant Likely
2011-09-30  9:29       ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-30  1:39 ` [PATCH 0/9] Device tree support for regulators Grant Likely

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