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From: ian <spyro@f2s.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED v3][PATCH 1/7] regulator: consumer interface
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:26:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205364361.24230.4.camel@wirenth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803121452.47600.david-b@pacbell.net>


On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:52 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > I don't see a particular problem fitting this into the structure of
> > the current API - to me the switches inflexible regulators with no
> > configurable voltage control of their own.
> 
> To me, they aren't regulators at all.  :)

I dunno.

Regulate - to control.

A switch certainly controls voltage. Admittedly the granularity is a
little coarser than a nice digitally controlled regulator, but it fits
the model...


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06 18:10 [UPDATED v3][PATCH 1/7] regulator: consumer interface Liam Girdwood
2008-03-08  3:43 ` David Brownell
2008-03-09 11:10   ` Liam Girdwood
2008-03-11  0:39     ` David Brownell
2008-03-11 10:20       ` Liam Girdwood
2008-03-11 21:36         ` David Brownell
2008-03-11 22:25           ` David Brownell
2008-03-12  0:00             ` Mark Brown
2008-03-12  7:31               ` David Brownell
2008-03-12 13:02                 ` Mark Brown
2008-03-12 21:52                   ` David Brownell
2008-03-12 23:26                     ` ian [this message]
2008-03-13  4:39                       ` David Brownell
2008-03-12 23:57                     ` Mark Brown
2008-03-13  5:08                       ` David Brownell
2008-03-13 12:00                         ` Mark Brown
2008-03-11  2:00     ` David Brownell
2008-03-11 15:19       ` Liam Girdwood
2008-03-12  6:29         ` David Brownell

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