From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757240AbZBZBCe (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:02:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753198AbZBZBCI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:02:08 -0500 Received: from smtp119.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.92]:44685 "HELO smtp119.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753038AbZBZBCG (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:02:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=xq2g4aAVAkzbG56wDmzuVebOa64oKvqfPuQtSPM2adIftvFMui6t8XfRxTLFUSpaEvSp+8CXM9KgwUWkjuQUET1JqmrrGwDjv2oMny2RiBVwciMCAXDIAFeRktvH8i3i5cpxMKNe2om/DgH7cFLbJUeGfhshw+bv4KMC+yTN9u0= ; X-YMail-OSG: IJ4Rh0YVM1nxtfY043KbXL1gqD4rYhPQs9FozBS0ntWA1DZ.shMm2W96tUEJiF90Ef3iwVoxJ5oUGupQXpOf908xJLf_DD.iksFuhNMOEInaiBZO32nM0zELoVbC8paXWs2RTNfm3Vd2FGBERUlifK5uud4U6hi35AmiDRcCxh9S3v8GxjufAw34bm9n X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.29-rc6 1/2] regulator: enumerate voltages Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:02:03 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Liam Girdwood , lkml , OMAP References: <200902081037.06645.david-b@pacbell.net> <200902241617.22643.david-b@pacbell.net> <20090225151721.GA31637@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090225151721.GA31637@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902251702.03230.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > > Fixable in an update.  I still think it's better to require less > > manual configuration, not more ... manual configuration is by > > definition error prone; requiring more manual configuration makes > > This whole interface is structured around the idea that the consequences > of getting this wrong include things like lasting hardware damage. Oh, one more comment. Requiring manual configuration of fixed-voltage regulators is pure time-wastage.