Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Don't increment use_count for boot_on regulators

[Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:36 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Don't set use_count for regulators that are enabled at boot since this
> stops the supply being disabled by well-behaved consumers which do
> balanced enables and disabled. Any consumers which don't do disables
> which are not matched by enables are unable to share regulators - shared
> regulators are the common case so the API should facilitate them.
> 
> Consumers that want to disable regulators that are enabled when they
> start have two options:
> 
>  - Do a regulator_enable() prior to the disable to bring the use count
>    in sync with the hardware state; this will ensure that if the
>    regulator was enabled by another driver then this consumer will play
>    nicely with it.
>  - Use regulator_force_disable(); this explicitly bypasses any checks
>    done by the core and documents the inability of the driver to share
>    the supply.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/core.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Applied.

Thanks

Liam