Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

From: Nayak, Rajendra
Date: Thu Oct 27 2011 - 06:43:27 EST


> If we have min_uV and max_uV we should also set REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE
> (and similarly for the currents).
>
> We should also have a way to enable status changes - since there's an
> always_on property (which does make sense) I'd suggest that as a first
> pass we should enable status changes if always_on is not set (these two
> things are a bit redundant in the existing constrints).  This is
> slightly risky as you can get a situation where new device driver
> support for regulators starts unexpectedly turning off supplies but
> that's always going to be a risk with constraints disassociated from the
> kernel.

okay, here's an updated patch which does that. I also added a binding to
specify a descriptive name to the regulator outputs as you suggested in
the other thread.