On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:55:51AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > If a regulator is specified as always-on, then it can't have an > > enable/disable pin, as it can't be turned off. > > Sometimes always on gets set for regulators which do have a physical > control wired up - the control might exist for use in suspend mode for > example. Is the ability to specify an enable pin causing a practical > problem for systems? If it is we should fix that.
I'm not sure I understand. My logic is that there is no point in requesting a pin which can disable a regulator that can't be disabled. Then we can follow on from that logic and say that if a regulator is _not_ always on this we _require_ a way to disable it, thus we insist on an enable GPIO pin. With me? -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
