From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] regulator: core: Add support for external outputs
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 21:35:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YnLjf6H4xJBCPwe7@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YnLh23QbnO1MHoVL@hatter.bewilderbeest.net>
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On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 01:28:11PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:
> To some extent that was an additional (maybe excessive) protective measure
> against regulators ending up userspace-controllable when they shouldn't be,
> since I had previously gotten the impression that there was some concern
> about that possibility.
The problem there is that userspace shouldn't be controlling the
regulator, it should be controlling the things using the regulator so
that whatever happens is coordinated with the rest of the management of
the device.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-04 6:50 [PATCH 0/6] regulator: core: Add support for external outputs Zev Weiss
2022-05-04 7:22 ` Zev Weiss
2022-05-04 12:56 ` Mark Brown
2022-05-04 20:28 ` Zev Weiss
2022-05-04 20:35 ` Mark Brown [this message]
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