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From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: stefan.mavrodiev@gmail.com
Cc: dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, wens@csie.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: dts: sun8i: Add dts file for Olimex A33-OLinuXino
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:21:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160727062146.GA6560@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30014119.IrjfP0xFry@linux-cigu>

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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 08:12:29AM +0300, stefan.mavrodiev@gmail.com wrote:
> > > +&reg_dcdc1 {
> > > +	regulator-always-on;
> > > +	regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
> > > +	regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
> > > +	regulator-name = "vcc-dsi";
> > > +};
> > 
> > What is it used for? Is it really necessary to keep it on at all time?
> 
> I think so.
> This is the supply for the MMC.

Then it's poorly named, and you should tie it to the MMC, and remove
the always-on if it's only used by the mmc. always-on is supposed to
be for regulators that shouldn't but turned off for the system to stay
running. Some MMC regulator doesn't fit that description.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-27  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-25 12:37 [PATCH v4] ARM: dts: sun8i: Add dts file for Olimex A33-OLinuXino Stefan Mavrodiev
2016-07-26 15:33 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-07-27  5:12   ` stefan.mavrodiev
2016-07-27  6:21     ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-07-27 10:02       ` stefan.mavrodiev
2016-07-28 17:53         ` Maxime Ripard
2016-08-15  7:36           ` [PATCH v5] " Stefan Mavrodiev

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