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It's not necessarily always on, but should not >> be enabled/touched by the frontend during probe. >> But anyways, having a capability that says if the enable/disable feature >> is available, is in any case useful and what I was planning on >> leveraging in my use case. >> Fundamentally, with the capabilites as now proposed, it is possible to >> select what features of the ad9467 are available, in addition to the >> basic requirements. > > Yeah but this is just tweaking for your special case. Actually goal for me is just to have the optional features of the backend really optional. In a sense, it's tweaking for my use case but at the same time it's making things work more generally. That said, this always_on is not a showstopper for me. Since it seems there is no real consensus over that capability, I can drop the ALWAYS_ON for next version of the series. Thanks, Tomas