Re: Optional regulators in bulk operations - reverted patch

From: Heiner Kallweit
Date: Tue Jan 31 2017 - 18:06:25 EST


Am 31.01.2017 um 22:43 schrieb Heiner Kallweit:
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> I just came across a use case where I wanted to deal with optional
> regulators in bulk operations. I was about to submit a related
> patch when I saw that you submitted basically the same in
> 3ff3f518a135 "regulator: Make bulk API support optional supplies"
> and reverted it later stating that you misunderstood the API.
>
> How does this extension break the API? To me it sounds like a
> neat feature.
>
> The only thing I can think of if that we have to assume that
> struct regulator_bulk_data is zero-initialized to ensure
> backwards-compatibility (use "normal" get as default).
>
> Rgds, Heiner
>
Sorry for the noise, I got it meanwhile.