linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] voltage/current regulator consumer interface

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Date:	Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:04:49 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>,
	James Kosin <jkosin@...a.intcomgrp.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFD] voltage/current regulator consumer interface

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:19:33AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Well, then you should teach serial driver to power the (GPS) device up on
> open() and power it off on close()...

This all started because this approach was nacked for serial drivers.
In any case, I'm not sure that'll scale - it may not be desirable or
reasonable to do something like that for all devices.  For example, the
devices may be connected via a technology that's not suitable (I've
worked on systems which used ethernet here).
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