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Message-Id: <1237486168.6781.341.camel@vega.slimlogic.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:09:28 +0000
From: Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: Support disabling of unused regulators
by machines
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:36 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> At present it is not possible for machine constraints to disable
> regulators which have been left on when the system starts, for example
> as a result of fixed default configurations in hardware. This means that
> power may be wasted by these regulators if they are not in use.
>
> Provide intial support for this with a late_initcall which will disable
> any unused regulators if the machine has enabled this feature by calling
> regulator_has_full_constraints(). If this has not been called then print
> a warning to encourage users to fully specify their constraints so that
> we can change this to be the default behaviour in future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
> drivers/regulator/core.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/regulator/machine.h | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
Applied.
Thanks
Liam
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