linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: qcom: Rework to single platform device

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Message-ID: <20150304000955.GH21293@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2015 00:09:55 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: qcom: Rework to single platform device

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 04:01:43PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 03/03/15 15:52, Mark Brown wrote:

> > ...but of course we'd never try any operations on it anyway as there
> > would be no consumers.

> Yes sounds fine. The only concern is that we're probably wasting memory
> with things that won't ever "match" something in DT.

You still get diagnostic output about what the regulator state is which
is useful in itself and the amount of memory involved is really not
enough to worry about in the grand scheme of things.

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