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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Furquan Shaikh <furquan@chromium.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Sathyanarayana Nujella <sathyanarayana.nujella@intel.com>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
	Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@diasemi.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.orgACPI Devel Maling List <lin>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:40:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170125204053.st2ce7wfjttnk65k@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125192135.GA8605@red-moon>

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:21:35PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:29:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I think there's a reasonable chance that any ACPI specs could be written
> > in such a way as to allow transparent support in Linux, the main thing
> > I'd worry about is naming issues.

> I think that the difference between ACPI and DT firmware models,
> in particular in relation to power states handling (and what piece
> of SW is in charge of power management) is significant and goes beyond
> naming conventions, therefore the code (and reasoning behind it - ie
> to have an identical driver interface to a completely different FW
> model) in this series is just not acceptable, that's a plain shortcut.

> We will see how this should be implemented in ACPI, not with this
> code (and FW bindings).

Oh, absolutely - what I'm saying is that once that's done I'd expect
implementing it to be almost entirely a regulator core change in the
same way that implementing DT support was.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-25 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-25  0:06 [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] drivers/regulator: Rename of_map_mode to map_mode in regulator desc Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 2/7] ACPI / property: have acpi_get_next_subnode take fwnode_handle Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25 11:00   ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 3/7] device property: introduce fwnode_for_each_child() Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 4/7] device property: introduce fwnode_get_named_child_node() Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 5/7] device property: Export dev_fwnode Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 6/7] drivers/gpio: Add and export gpiod_lookup[_index] Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25 11:18   ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-26 15:24   ` Linus Walleij
2017-01-25  0:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] drivers/regulator: Initialize regulator init data for ACPI regulators Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25 12:29 ` [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF Lorenzo Pieralisi
2017-01-25 12:49 ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 12:55   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-01-25 16:56     ` Furquan Shaikh
2017-01-25 18:23       ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-25 18:29         ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 18:34           ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-25 18:49             ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 19:39               ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-25 18:44           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-25 19:27             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-25 20:39               ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 21:17                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-25 21:30                   ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 22:05                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-25 22:25                       ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 21:44               ` Al Stone
2017-01-25 23:27                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-26  0:15                   ` Al Stone
2017-01-26  0:33                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-26 10:35                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-04 16:08                         ` Mark Brown
2017-01-25 19:21           ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2017-01-25 20:40             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2017-01-25 18:25       ` Mark Brown

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