From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: atull <atull@opensource.altera.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: power supply gating with ltc2978
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:20:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140816132050.GH28623@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1408151623140.21645@atx-linux-37>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:34:49PM -0500, atull wrote:
> I am interested in adding functionality to be able to gate power supplies
> going through a ltc2978. I see that there is a hwmon driver already
> existing (hwmon/pmbus/ltc2978.c). I see some of the other hwmon drivers
> have MFD's. It looks like this ltc driver would need a MFD and a
> regulator driver added. However I don't see other pmbus hwmon drivers
> using MFD.
> So I am asking for recommendations and reservations on how to proceed here
> before I get too far with this.
Without knowing anything at all about pmbus or this particular hardware
it's hard to comment but what you're saying here sounds sensible (though
I do see that apparently splitting the drivers may not actually be
sensible from Guenter's followup).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-16 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-15 21:34 atull
2014-08-15 21:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-16 13:20 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-08-18 3:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 14:21 ` atull
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