On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:21:49PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 04/23/2012 01:05 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >To be honest I don't entirely understand what your goal is at the system
> >level - the current idea is that either the regulator will be marked as
> >always_on or it should be enabled by a consumer.  What is the scenario
> >in which neither of these is sufficient?

> The consumer do not want to enable the regulator directly from its
> device probe routine, it is handled through a scheduled work.

> Moreover the regulator shall not be switched off unless the consumer
> work decides that this is OK.

Cann you be a bit more concrete?  What is this device and why does it
have these requirements?  The most obvious thing to do here is to run
the work in the probe routine.