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Nikolaus Schaller wrote: ... > Another suggestion: what extending the "regulator-fixed", "regulator-gpio", > "regulator-fixed-clock" pattern by some "regulator-gpio-iio-dac-current-limiter" > driver to make it independent of your specific chip? > The name is terrible ;-), but that is what I would have suggested as well. I don't see anything chip specific in this code. If there is a need for a regulator driver which uses gpio to enable it and a DAC for current limiting, it should be made generic. > By the way, are you aware of this feature of the regulator-gpio driver? > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18-rc7/source/drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c#L97 > > Just to note: I am neither maintainer nor doing any decisions on this, just asking > questions for curiosity and from experience and giving hints for alternative approaches, > where I hope they help to find the really best solution. > Same here. Thanks, Guenter