linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] regulator: max77686: Add external GPIO control

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Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2014 13:23:52 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
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	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] regulator: max77686: Add external GPIO control

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:07:02PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On pią, 2014-10-31 at 10:32 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > We could always add a callback for the driver to handle any custom
> > properties...  one of the advantages of an OS like Linux is that we can
> > improve the core code.

> I thought about this - adding a callback, called on each child in
> regulator_of_get_init_data(). However the reason behind this callback is
> to parse GPIO and set config.ena_gpio. However in that context the
> regulator_config is const so the callback cannot change it. Unless it
> casts it to non-const... which isn't what we want I think.

> So now I wonder whether adding generic bindings for ena_gpio make sense.
> These would look like bindings for fixed-regulator (with "ena-" prefix).
> Unfortunately this would duplicate a little the ena_gpio in
> regulator_config... but to me it seems more appropriate.

> What do you think about adding generic bindings for ena_gpio?

Well, if you only want this for enable GPIO control (sorry, I'm really
not reading a lot of these long threads when it looks like there'll be a
resubmit anyway) we can always add a way for drivers to specify the name
of a property to look at easily enough.

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