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From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
	Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>,
	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
	Cliff Brake <cbrake@bec-systems.com>,
	Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>,
	Madhusudhan <madhu.cr@ti.com>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: move regulator handling to core
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:03:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100827190306.GB20407@void.printf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259844390-10541-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de>

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:46:30PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> At the moment, regulator operations are done from individual mmc host
> drivers. This is a problem because the regulators are not claimed
> exclusively but the mmc core enables and disables them according to the
> return value of regulator_is_enabled(). That can lead to a number of
> problems and warnings when regulators are shared among multiple
> consumers or if regulators are marked as 'always_on'.
> 
> Fix this by moving the some logic to the core, and put the regulator
> reference to the mmc_host struct and let it do its own supply state
> tracking so that the reference counting in the regulator won't get
> confused.

Looks like this patch got dropped because of the missing modifications
to arch/arm/mach-omap2/mmc-twl4030.c.  Are we still interested in the
patch otherwise, and can anyone help with that?

-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03 12:46 [PATCH] mmc: move regulator handling to core Daniel Mack
2009-12-03 13:06 ` Mark Brown
2009-12-03 13:14   ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-03 13:22     ` Mark Brown
2009-12-03 13:32       ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-03 13:40         ` Mark Brown
2009-12-03 13:43           ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-03 14:58       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-03 15:09         ` Mark Brown
2009-12-03 14:27 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-12-03 19:20   ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-03 20:12     ` Adrian Hunter
2009-12-04 11:58       ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-12  0:58         ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-14 17:43           ` Madhusudhan
2009-12-15  5:44         ` David Brownell
2010-08-27 19:03 ` Chris Ball [this message]
2010-08-28 14:48   ` Linus Walleij
2010-08-29 13:27     ` Mark Brown
2010-08-29 15:30       ` Linus Walleij
2010-08-31 11:07         ` Mark Brown
2010-08-31 12:15           ` Linus Walleij

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