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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Robert MARKLUND <robert.marklund@stericsson.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>,
	Mathieu Poirer <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc911x: Add regulator support
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:33:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017143358.GI5448@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2B1D156D95AE9B4EAD379CB9E465FE7324AB09E052@EXDCVYMBSTM005.EQ1STM.local>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Robert MARKLUND wrote:

> > You should fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs, I've
> > reformatted it for legibility.  Also leave a blank line between
> > paragraphs for the same reason.

> I have tried but it's not as easy as it sounds :)
> Does it look better now ?

Yes, thanks.

> > No, you should do what all the other drivers do and actually pay
> > attention to the errors.  If we can't get power to the device that's a
> > pretty serious problem and the driver ought  to fail.

> Then I don't understand the initial comment.
> Can you please elaborate that one.

If we fail to grab a critical resource for the device like the power
supply then we should be failing passing the error back.  As I keep
saying this is what all the other regulator consumers are doing.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-17 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17  6:56 [PATCH] smsc911x: Add regulator support Robert Marklund
2011-10-17 10:52 ` Mark Brown
2011-10-17 11:30   ` Robert MARKLUND
2011-10-17 12:36     ` Mark Brown
2011-10-17 14:13       ` Robert MARKLUND
2011-10-17 14:33         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-10-17 15:28           ` Robert MARKLUND
2011-10-17 15:38             ` Mark Brown

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