linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] phy: exynos5-usbdrd: Add facility to toggle vbus gpio on/off

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Message-id: <53454668.8090300@samsung.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:08:56 +0200
From:	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>
To:	Vivek Gautam <gautam.vivek@...sung.com>
Cc:	kishon <kishon@...com>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org" 
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	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>,
	Kamil Debski <k.debski@...sung.com>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: exynos5-usbdrd: Add facility to toggle vbus gpio
 on/off

On 09/04/14 14:24, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki
> <s.nawrocki@...sung.com> wrote:
>> > On 09/04/14 13:54, Vivek Gautam wrote:
>>> >> Adding support to enable/disable VBUS hooked to a gpio
>>> >> to enable vbus supply on the port.
>> >
>> > Does the GPIO control a fixed voltage regulator ? If so, shouldn't
>> > it be modelled by the regulator API instead ?
>
> No, this GPIO controls a 'current limiting power distribution switch',
> which gives the output vbus to usb controller.
> Should i model this as a fixed regulator ?

OK, it's just a power switch then. I suspect using the regulator API
would be more universal, as such a GPIO is somewhat a board design
detail. I'm not going to object to your patch, just might be better
to use the gpiod API instead.

-- 
Regards,
Sylwester
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