linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: regulator: Add regulator-external-output property

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Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 13:36:06 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Zev Weiss <zev@...ilderbeest.net>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: regulator: Add
 regulator-external-output property

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 11:52:47PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:
> Some regulators do not provide power to anything within the system
> described by a device tree, and simply supply an external output.  The
> regulator-external-output property can now be used to mark such
> regulators.

Why not just add a device representing this output?  Presumably it has
some other properties (eg, labelling for a connector) and may need some
integration with some form of control mechanism.

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