Re: [PATCH 07/11] ARM: dts: sunxi: Add dtsi file for AXP809 PMIC

Mark Brown
2016-02-08T16:23:07Z

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On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:56:05PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 08:42:24PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:

> >> Mark, may I assume you are OK with this DTS include listing
> >> the regulators, even if their sections are empty?

> > If it has no content why have it?

> I'd like the regulator core to disable any unused ones. The core
> considers regulators that don't have nodes as not having constraints,
> and won't touch them.

> Any other ways to do this? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

The whole point with constraints is that they describe what is safe on a
given board. This includes powering off unused regulators - it should
be something that the system integrator configures, not something that
they get as default.

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