Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Allow use of "status = disabled" in regulator dts nodes

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:03:44PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

> So if we want to use these pins as gpio pins we must not register
> a regulator for these pins at all, otherwise any gpio use (switching
> to input, or writing a value) gets undone when the regulator subsys
> disables unused regulators at the end of kernel-init.

The regulator API should not touch any regulators that it doesn't have
permission to change the state for.  All other regulators are strictly
read only.  

> This commits allows the use of  "status = disabled" in regulator dts
> nodes and makes regulator_register return ENODEV when this is set.

If the regulator can't be changed why is it in the DT in the first
place?

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