linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: lp872x: Add enable GPIO pin support

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Message-ID: <1451816366.3428.4.camel@collins>
Date:	Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:19:26 +0100
From:	Paul Kocialkowski <contact@...lk.fr>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Milo Kim <milo.kim@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Benoît Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: lp872x: Add enable GPIO pin support

Le jeudi 31 décembre 2015 à 22:14 +0000, Mark Brown a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:59:06PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> 
> > I understand, thanks for pointing this out. Well, for my use case, there
> > is no use in disabling the chip at any point as it powers the external
> > mmc.
> 
> Presumably someone might decide not to use the MMC in some case (perhaps
> only mounting it when explicitly needed in order to save power for
> example, or the MMC subsystem might figure out a way to power down an
> idle MMC block device).

Makes sense, I'll keep that in mind.

> > Would you agree to have the enable pin handled directly (and by that, I
> > mean enabled once, when requested, as I first suggested in the patchset)
> > in the driver then?
> 
> That's probably fine, or do it via runtime PM (the framework is fairly
> simple to use, I'll probably go add support in the core for it in the
> next day or two as this seems like a sensible use case).  I can't
> remember if this device is a MFD or not and I'm just on my way out the
> door.

Runtime PM seems like a good fit (though I hadn't heard about it before:
you can guess I'm fairly new to kernel development), please let me know
whether you end up implementing it so I can try to handle the GPIO this
way.

Thanks!

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