2016-12-13 20:27 GMT+01:00 Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org>: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:21:44PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: >> Some boards are equipped with simple, GPIO-driven power load switches. >> An example of such ICs is the TI tps229* series. > > How is this different than a GPIO regulator? The input and output > voltages just happen to be the same. I could be convinced this is > different enough to have a different compatible, but it somewhat seems > you want to use this for IIO, so you are creating a different binding > for that usecase. >
It's more of a fixed regulator I suppose. Do you mean adding a new compatible to the fixed-regulator binding (e.g. "gpio-power-switch" or "simple-power-switch") and then providing an iio driver for toggling the switch? Thanks, Bartosz
