netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: pse-pd: Add PD692x0 PSE controller driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <8a8b0735-f1fa-401d-9f92-bb9ce8bd1e7d@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:34:02 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
Cc: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Russ Weight <russ.weight@...ux.dev>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Dent Project <dentproject@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: pse-pd: Add PD692x0 PSE controller
 driver

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:19:55PM +0100, Köry Maincent wrote:

> So we will have PSE drivers which are regulators consumer for the chip,
> regulator providers for all its ports and regulator consumers also for all its
> ports. Is it clearer? Would that sound ok for you?

That does sound fine, and like there's a use case for substituting in a
non-PSE regulator in embedded systems so we get something for the effort.
You might want to take a look at the arizona MFD for an example of a
driver for a device which includes a regulator that may optionally be
unused - it's not ideal but it does work.

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (489 bytes)