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

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 11:50:26 EST


Hi Mark,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:01:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:40:05PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
> > Or, since regulator_of_get_init_data uses for_each_available_child_of_node
> > which checks the "status" value we can actually already use
> > "status=disabled" cool. So this simply already works :)
>
> To repeat you really shouldn't have *any* DT nodes for regulators that
> aren't in use, there should be nothing to put in their nodes. If
> there's anything there that's a sign that your DT has problems.

How should we deal with regulators that are on by default but are not
used in the system then?

Thanks,
Maxime

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