Re: [PATCH] regulator: Document "regulator-boot-on" binding more thoroughly

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:41 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:41:18PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
>
> > -    description: bootloader/firmware enabled regulator
> > +    description: bootloader/firmware enabled regulator.
> > +      It's expected that this regulator was left on by the bootloader.
> > +      If the bootloader didn't leave it on then OS should turn it on
> > +      at boot but shouldn't prevent it from being turned off later.
>
> This is good...
>
> > +      This property is intended to only be used for regulators where
> > +      Linux cannot read the state of the regulator at bootup.
>
> ...but we shouldn't say "Linux" here since the DT binding is for all
> OSs, not just Linux.  I'd say "software" instead.  Really the
> expectation is that things wouldn't support readback at all, though it's
> possible there's some weird hardware out there that will support
> readback some of the time I guess.

Argh.  I knew not to mention "Linux" and kept it in mind to write the
first part.  ...but then I must have just spaced.  I also removed the
"at bootup" part since it seemed better.

-Doug