linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] regulator: Display in use regulators in sysfs

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:19:27 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] regulator: Display in use regulators in sysfs

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 09:46:24AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > To locate a consumer that currently holds a regulattor, a new sysfs
> > entry is created. The consumer are published in
> > /sys/class/regulator/regulator.<#>/use.
> 
> We call our reference counts use count but this was in fact the original
> design, the local reference counts got dropped due to David Brownell's
> forceful insistance :/

So I should pull the patch?

How do you feel about being able to access it via sysfs? Good or bad
idea? If it's a good idea, I can always change the name of the
variable?

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