linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: tps6586x: Having slew rate settings for other than SM0/1 is not fatal

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:07:04 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...ics.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: tps6586x: Having slew rate settings for other
 than SM0/1 is not fatal

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:32:50PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 11:26 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > - what he's saying is that the error handling here seems
> > excessive.

> Why shouldn't the driver return an error if it's asked to do something
> that's impossible?

I'm having a hard time caring too much to be honest.  On the one hand it
means that if that feature gets added for some reason new DTs won't work
on older kernels, on the other hand perhaps the hardware doesn't support
doing this at all.

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