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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Watson Chow <watson.chow@avnet.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: regulators: Add bindings for Maxim MAX20086-MAX20089
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 14:49:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdRejDRYwoQbNY4f@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdRdAI4S0+85CuDy@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

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On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 04:43:12PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 02:26:45PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 11:11:23PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> > > +    required:
> > > +      - OUT1
> > > +      - OUT2

> > Why are we requiring that there be machine constraints for the
> > individual regulators?  There's already a problem with people just
> > using the maximum possible control a regulator has as the default for
> > devices without regard to what the specific system can support.

> Could you elaborate a bit, keeping in mind that I'm a newbie when it
> comes to the regulator framework ? :-)

Not really...  the question is why we are marking these as required
rather than just letting them be omitted as we normally do for
individual regulators on a device.  What purpose does it serve?

> How should I modify the DT bindings to match that correctly ?

Remove the required:.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-04 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-02 21:11 [PATCH 0/2] regulator: Add driver for Maxim MAX20086-MAX20089 Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-02 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: regulators: Add bindings " Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-04 14:26   ` Mark Brown
2022-01-04 14:43     ` Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-04 14:49       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2022-01-02 21:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: Add MAX20086-MAX20089 driver Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-04 14:16   ` Mark Brown
2022-01-04 14:33     ` Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-04 14:47       ` Mark Brown
2022-01-05 23:07         ` Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-05 23:23       ` Laurent Pinchart
2022-01-06 11:40         ` Mark Brown
2022-01-05  6:29   ` kernel test robot

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