Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add software node support to regulator framework

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jul 13 2021 - 12:03:37 EST


On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:42:33PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 04:24:54PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:32:26AM +0100, Daniel Scally wrote:

> > > It also creates some problems to suppress the enumeration of the i2c
> > > device via ACPI (which we'll have to do in a machine specific fashion,
> > > because some laptops have this chip with properly configured ACPI and

> > To be clear I think that's a terrible idea.

> If you're talking about the ACPI implementation on those machines,
> nobody disagrees :-)

> To make sure I understand you correctly, do you advocate for suppressing
> registration of the I2C devices from ACPI and instantiate them from
> board code instead, or to somehow supplement the I2C device with
> board-specific data ?

No, to repeat yet again that is what I think is a terrible idea.

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