From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Alban Bedel <alban.bedel@avionic-design.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] devicetree: add a binding for a regulator that constrains its supply
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:15:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141124151527.GC7712@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416834123-23139-1-git-send-email-alban.bedel@avionic-design.de>
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 02:02:00PM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> +Constrained Supply Regulator
> +
> +This binding allow creating a virtual regulator that constrain its
> +supply to provides the requested voltage. This is to allow using
> +simple drivers that don't explicitly request a voltage on boards
> +that have adjustable hardware regulators.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible : Must be "regulator-constrained-supply".
> +- vin-supply : phandle to the parent supply/regulator node
Reading this description I'm at a loss to explain what this is intended
to achieve - it's obviously not describing hardware which is a rather
large alarm bell and I don't really understand why the constraints
wouldn't be set on the parent regulator.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-24 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-24 13:02 [PATCH 1/4] devicetree: add a binding for a regulator that constrains its supply Alban Bedel
2014-11-24 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] regulator: add a regulator that constrain " Alban Bedel
2014-11-24 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] devicetree: add a binding for a group of regulator Alban Bedel
2014-11-24 15:24 ` Mark Brown
2014-11-24 17:32 ` Alban Bedel
2014-11-24 17:55 ` Mark Brown
2014-11-24 13:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] regulator: add a regulator group driver Alban Bedel
2014-11-24 15:15 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-11-24 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] devicetree: add a binding for a regulator that constrains its supply Alban Bedel
2014-11-24 18:04 ` Mark Brown
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