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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Allow use of "status = disabled" in regulator dts nodes
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:40:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1fc599c-875b-8b61-23c2-de775d95201f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427143711.GT3217@sirena.org.uk>

Hi,

On 27-04-16 16:37, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:31:02PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On 27-04-16 16:24, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> The regulator API should not touch any regulators that it doesn't have
>>> permission to change the state for.  All other regulators are strictly
>>> read only.
>
>> How do we give permission to change state ? Is omitting the dts node,
>> and thus not returning a node / constrains from regulator_of_get_init_data
>> enough for the regulator API to not have permission ?
>
> Yes, omit the DT node or mark it always on at the minute.

Or, since regulator_of_get_init_data uses for_each_available_child_of_node
which checks the "status" value we can actually already use
"status=disabled" cool. So this simply already works :)

Regards,

Hans

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 14:03 [PATCH resend 0/2] regulator: core: Allow use of "status = disabled" in regulator dts nodes Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:24   ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 14:31     ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:37       ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 14:40         ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2016-04-27 15:01           ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 15:50             ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-27 15:52               ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 15:54                 ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 16:32                   ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: axp20x: Handle regulator_register returning ENODEV Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:25   ` Mark Brown

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