linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] regulator: act8865: Add support to turn off all outputs

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Date:	Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:04:26 +0200
From:	PERIER Romain <romain.perier@...il.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] regulator: act8865: Add support to turn off all outputs

Well, I will think about it and I will propose a separated patch with
a generic property and helper functions.

2014-09-28 15:25 GMT+02:00 PERIER Romain <romain.perier@...il.com>:
> 2014-09-28 14:25 GMT+02:00 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>:
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:00:54PM +0200, PERIER Romain wrote:
>>> 2014-09-28 12:33 GMT+02:00 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>:
>>
>>> > We really need to come up with a standard property for this and document
>>> > it rather than continuing to add individual device specific properties
>>> > all doing the same thing, and probably also some helper code and/or a
>>> > standard operation for this - there's a lot of drivers implementing the
>>> > same pattern here.
>>
>>> I completly agree about adding a unified and generic property for that purpose.
>>> I already proposed something for that on devicetree ML, see the thread
>>> "Proposal: generic property for system-power-controller".
>>> Unfortunately I did not get replies :) .
>>
>> Did you CC relevant maintainers and send a patch?
>
> No I did not propose patches as I was an open discussion. Perhaps I
> might propose something as part of my contribution for act8865... (at
> least for the property)
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