Re: [PATCH 1/1] mmc: core: Use regulator_get_voltage() if OCR mask is empty.

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Mark,

On 08/15/2014 11:55 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 09:48:43AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
>> But now I wonder why regulator_list_voltage() even list the voltage for
>> fixed regulators (desc->fixed_uV) since they don't have the ability to
> 
> That's because it's very cheap to do and there is a comprehensible thing
> we can return - if we have to read the voltage that means potentially
> asking the hardware in an I2C transaction which is not cheap.
> 

Thanks a lot for the explanation, that does make a lot of sense.

> 
> There's plenty of potentially variable regulators used in these
> situations, I expect it's more likely that people were just ignoring the
> warning since it has no practical effect.
> 

Indeed.

Best regards,
Javier
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