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From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.28-rc3] regulator: add REGULATOR_MODE_OFF
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:09:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081112230901.GA8272@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811121342.36117.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:42:35PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It should be a separate patch, I'd say.

> So you think I should split my "v2" patch in two chunks?
> One distinguishing requested-vs=actual mode, and the other
> allowing the actual mode to include OFF.  (Possibly by just
> reporting mode 0 ...)

I would certainly keep OFF as a separate patch, yes.

> > Thinking about it I'm not sure if the hardware or logical state should
> > be the primary.  In terms of debugging power consumption and so on the

> If there are both "requested opmode" and "opmode" attributes
> in sysfs, I don't see how one would be "primary"!

The one returned by the in-kernel get_mode() and reported as "opmode" is
what I'd think of as primary.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-09 23:31 [patch 2.6.28-rc3] regulator: add REGULATOR_MODE_OFF David Brownell
2008-11-10 13:14 ` Liam Girdwood
2008-11-10 15:43   ` David Brownell
2008-11-10 16:56     ` Mark Brown
2008-11-11  4:56       ` David Brownell
2008-11-12 11:25         ` Mark Brown
2008-11-12 21:42           ` David Brownell
2008-11-12 23:09             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2008-11-12 22:23           ` Liam Girdwood
2008-11-13  0:00             ` David Brownell
2008-11-13 19:40           ` David Brownell
2008-11-13 21:53             ` Mark Brown
2008-11-15  1:15               ` David Brownell
2008-11-15  4:37                 ` Mark Brown
2008-11-16 20:28                   ` David Brownell
2008-11-16 22:58                   ` David Brownell
2008-11-17  1:51                     ` Mark Brown
2009-01-15  7:03                       ` David Brownell
2009-01-15 12:29                         ` Mark Brown
2009-01-15 22:32                           ` David Brownell
2009-01-16  1:08                             ` Mark Brown
2009-01-15  7:03                       ` [patch 2.6.29-rc] regulator: add get_status() David Brownell
2009-01-15 12:04                         ` Liam Girdwood
2009-01-15 12:40                         ` Mark Brown
2009-01-15 12:50                           ` Liam Girdwood
2009-01-15 15:35                             ` David Brownell
2009-01-15 16:05                               ` Mark Brown
2009-01-15 16:54                                 ` David Brownell
2009-01-15 18:11                             ` David Brownell
2009-01-15 18:24                               ` Mark Brown

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