linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/18] power: supply: bq24190_charger: Export 5V boost converter as regulator

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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 21:15:43 -0700
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, Liam Breck <liam@...workimprov.net>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] power: supply: bq24190_charger: Export 5V boost
 converter as regulator

* Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> [170806 05:37]:
> Register the 5V boost converter as a regulator named
> "regulator-bq24190-usb-vbus". Note the name includes "bq24190" because
> the bq24190 family is also used on ACPI devices where there are no
> device-tree phandles, so regulator_get will fallback to the name and thus
> it must be unique on the system.

Nice, this makes VBUS easy to use for USB PHY drivers :)

Tony