linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: move regulator handling to core

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Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:03:06 +0100
From:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>
To:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Pierre Ossman <pierre@...man.eu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>,
	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
	Cliff Brake <cbrake@...-systems.com>,
	Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@...ia.com>,
	Madhusudhan <madhu.cr@...com>, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: move regulator handling to core

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:46:30PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> At the moment, regulator operations are done from individual mmc host
> drivers. This is a problem because the regulators are not claimed
> exclusively but the mmc core enables and disables them according to the
> return value of regulator_is_enabled(). That can lead to a number of
> problems and warnings when regulators are shared among multiple
> consumers or if regulators are marked as 'always_on'.
> 
> Fix this by moving the some logic to the core, and put the regulator
> reference to the mmc_host struct and let it do its own supply state
> tracking so that the reference counting in the regulator won't get
> confused.

Looks like this patch got dropped because of the missing modifications
to arch/arm/mach-omap2/mmc-twl4030.c.  Are we still interested in the
patch otherwise, and can anyone help with that?

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Chris Ball   <cjb@...top.org>   <http://printf.net/>
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