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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:51:59 +0100
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
To:	PERIER Romain <romain.perier@...il.com>
Cc:	devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	"sameo@...ux.intel.com" <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, robh <robh@...nel.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] regulator: Add helper function to get
 "poweroff-source" property

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:29 PM, PERIER Romain <romain.perier@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I'm more concerned about is the semantics of the property. What
>> do the generic code paths gain by standardizing this property? Is it
>> expected that
>
> We really need to come up with a standard property for this and document
> it rather than continuing to add individual device specific properties
> each time a driver adds poweroff capability,
> all doing the same thing (a lot of regulators driver, mfd drivers, soc
> specific drivers, power drivers already do that, that's very redudant)
> . This is a simple unification logic.

Yes, it's fine. I accidentally left that paragraph in when I sent my
reply. I started writing that concern, and then thought better of it.
The property is fine.

g.
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