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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MMC: move regulator handling closer to core v3
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:01:27AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:

> As an aside, I would like to enhance the regulator framework to
> enable boards to hook their code directly into the regulator.

What do you mean when you say that you would like boards to "hook
directly into the regulator" - what do you want to be able to do?
Is this the notifiers?  Do you need more of them?

> Arguably this is essential to allow pbias configuration (without
> which the board may be damaged) so that regulator_enable/disable
> can be used independently of the board, or for example to allow

I can't parse this at all I'm afraid.  Could you be more specific about
what you mean by using enable and disable independantly of the board -
clearly the consumer drivers are already able to be board independant?

> the regulator core to turn the regulator on/off at initialisation.

The regulator core already supports enabling or disabling regulators
from the machine constraints which I *think* is what you're looking for
but since I can't follow what you're saying above I'm not sure.