Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Allow use of "status = disabled" in regulator dts nodes

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:54:48PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 27-04-16 17:52, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >On 27-04-16 17:50, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >>On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:01:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> >>>To repeat you really shouldn't have *any* DT nodes for regulators that
> >>>aren't in use, there should be nothing to put in their nodes.  If
> >>>there's anything there that's a sign that your DT has problems.

> >>How should we deal with regulators that are on by default but are not
> >>used in the system then?

> >I think we've already solved that one, we do list them, thereby giving the
> >regulator core permission to touch them and then let the regulator core
> >turn them off for us.

Yes.

> To clarify, I do not believe that this is not about not having nodes for
> unused regulators, but about not having nodes for regulators which should not
> be touched.

Correct.  If we have constraints for a regulator then they should be
accurate.

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