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From: Pramod Gurav <pramod.gurav@smartplayin.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: core: do not disable regulator if boot_on is set
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:47:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54746533.1010408@smartplayin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141125110540.GL7712@sirena.org.uk>

Hi Mark,

On Tuesday 25 November 2014 04:35 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:23:23PM +0530, Pramod Gurav wrote:
>> Currently the regulator core disables the regulators which are unused
>> or whose reference count is zero or if they are configured always_on.
> 
> No, it does *not* disable them if they are configured always_on (as the
> code you're modifying shows).

Yes, thats a typo.
> 
>> This change adds a check in this logic to see if a regulator is
>> configured as boot_on and does not disable it if found true.
> 
>> -		if (c && c->always_on)
>> +		if (c && (c->always_on || c->boot_on))
>>  			continue;
> 
> This isn't what boot_on means.  It just means that the regulator is
> expected to be enabled at initial power on, it doesn't mean it needs to
> be enabled all the time.  Otherwise there'd be no point in having a
> separate always_on flag.

Thanks for the comment. :-)
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25 10:53 [RFC PATCH] regulator: core: do not disable regulator if boot_on is set Pramod Gurav
2014-11-25 10:57 ` Lucas Stach
2014-11-25 11:17   ` Pramod Gurav
2014-11-25 11:05 ` Mark Brown
2014-11-25 11:17   ` Pramod Gurav [this message]

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