Re: [PATCH] regulator: Provide dummy supply support

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:59:31PM +0200, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:26:58PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 
> >  drivers/regulator/Makefile        |    2 +-
> >  drivers/regulator/dummy-supply.c  |   88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> We already have a dummy regulator driver and a fixed voltage regulator
> driver, we shouldn't be adding a third implementation of the same thing.
> Just use the fixed voltage regulator for this.

I explained in my mail why I think that the current implementation of
the dummy regulator is not suitable for things apart from debugging.

My main concern with the fixed regulator is that it needs quite much
boilerplate code just to say that we have no regulator at all for a
given device. That could also be handled with a helper function which
registers a fixed regulator and only takes the regulator_consumer_supply
as an argument. Would that be ok for you?

Sascha

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