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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Allow use of "status = disabled" in regulator dts nodes
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:37:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427143711.GT3217@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdec8b43-88e1-dcfe-b185-9c6ae0b014c6@redhat.com>

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:31:02PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 27-04-16 16:24, Mark Brown wrote:

> >The regulator API should not touch any regulators that it doesn't have
> >permission to change the state for.  All other regulators are strictly
> >read only.

> How do we give permission to change state ? Is omitting the dts node,
> and thus not returning a node / constrains from regulator_of_get_init_data
> enough for the regulator API to not have permission ?

Yes, omit the DT node or mark it always on at the minute.

> Is there any way to see this in sysfs ?

Not off the top of my head, but it's in debugfs.

> >If the regulator can't be changed why is it in the DT in the first
> >place?

> The regulator is part of the pmic and the axp20x regulator driver
> registers all regulators on the pmic when the pmic-s mfd instantiated
> regulators-platform-device gets probed.

That's the driver, that's not the DT.  Drivers should always register
all the regulators in the device they're for.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 14:03 [PATCH resend 0/2] " Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:24   ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 14:31     ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:37       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2016-04-27 14:40         ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 15:01           ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 15:50             ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-27 15:52               ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 15:54                 ` Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 16:32                   ` Mark Brown
2016-04-27 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: axp20x: Handle regulator_register returning ENODEV Hans de Goede
2016-04-27 14:25   ` Mark Brown

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