Re: [PATCH] regulator: anatop: Add support for "anatop-enable-bit"

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:07:42AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:30:14AM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> > Add code to support support for "anatop-enable-bit" device-tree
> > property. This property translates to LINREG_ENABLE bit in real hardware
> > and is present on 1p1, 2p5 and 3p0 regulators on i.MX6 and 1p0d regulator
> > on i.MX7.
> > 
> > Cc: yurovsky@xxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > Note: "anatop-enable-bit" has already found its way into upstream tree
> > before this patch (probably not on purpose). See imx6ul.dtsi and
> > imx7s.dtsi for concrete examples
> 
> But since the kernel is not using it, it doesn't really mean we have to 
> keep it. Yes, other OSs could be, but that's unlikely.
> 
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/anatop-regulator.txt       |  1 +
> >  drivers/regulator/anatop-regulator.c                         | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/anatop-regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/anatop-regulator.txt
> > index 37c4ea0..1d58c8c 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/anatop-regulator.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/anatop-regulator.txt
> > @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Optional properties:
> >  - anatop-delay-bit-shift: Bit shift for the step time register
> >  - anatop-delay-bit-width: Number of bits used in the step time register
> >  - vin-supply: The supply for this regulator
> > +- anatop-enable-bit: Regulator enable bit offset
> 
> Looks like we have several properties describing the register layout. 
> IMO, we should drop all of them and use the compatible strings to 
> determine those instead.

NM, I see this on each regulator...

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>