Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: Support disabling of unused regulators by machines

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

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:36 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> At present it is not possible for machine constraints to disable
> regulators which have been left on when the system starts, for example
> as a result of fixed default configurations in hardware. This means that
> power may be wasted by these regulators if they are not in use.
> 
> Provide intial support for this with a late_initcall which will disable
> any unused regulators if the machine has enabled this feature by calling
> regulator_has_full_constraints(). If this has not been called then print
> a warning to encourage users to fully specify their constraints so that
> we can change this to be the default behaviour in future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/core.c          |   92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/regulator/machine.h |    2 +
>  2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 

Applied.

Thanks

Liam