linux-kernel - Re: [UPDATED v3][PATCH 1/7] regulator: consumer interface

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Message-Id: <1205364361.24230.4.camel@wirenth>
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:26:01 +0000
From:	ian <spyro@....com>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED v3][PATCH 1/7] regulator: consumer interface


On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:52 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > I don't see a particular problem fitting this into the structure of
> > the current API - to me the switches inflexible regulators with no
> > configurable voltage control of their own.
> 
> To me, they aren't regulators at all.  :)

I dunno.

Regulate - to control.

A switch certainly controls voltage. Admittedly the granularity is a
little coarser than a nice digitally controlled regulator, but it fits
the model...

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