linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] regulator: adapt fixed regulator driver to dt

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Message-ID: <20111104212538.GA8266@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Nov 2011 21:25:38 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...com>, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	patches@...aro.org, tony@...mide.com,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, lrg@...com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] regulator: adapt fixed regulator driver to dt

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:18:24PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:01:52PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > No, the fixed voltage regultor is a superset of a general regulator - it
> > has additional information like the voltage it supplies and the optional
> > enable GPIO.

> Still, seems like it could be merged into one regulator binding.

I don't see how you can usefully do that, the task of plumbing a
regulator into a board is largely orthogonal to the specific feature set
of a given regulator.  The specific bindings for a fixed voltage
regulator would be useful or unhelpful for most regultors controlled via
I2C.
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