Re: [REPOST RFC PATCH 0/3] New "gpio-poweroff" driver to turn offplatform devices with GPIOs

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Dec 19 2011 - 20:38:23 EST


On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:56:41AM -0600, Moffett, Kyle D wrote:

> I still don't understand how the regulator API is supposed to help in my
> particular case (whole-system poweroff).

Well, it depends what you need to do. In the ST-Ericsson case what they
needed to do was collapse the core supplies for the CPU. But previously
you were talking about power domains, not whole system poweroff.
Usually a power domain is a subset of the full system power.
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