[PATCH] mmc: move regulator handling to core

[Linus Walleij]

2010/8/31 Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 05:30:48PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> 2010/8/29 Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>:
>
>> > This seems like the wrong approach; if there's a problem it'd seem much
>> > better to fix the core code that everything is sharing rather than
>> > factor it out - the location of the code is orthogonal to its
>> > helpfulness.
>
>> I actually did not move the essential regulator bits out just enable/disable,
>> so that these were in the sites where the regulators were actually
>> enabled/disabled in respective driver. That makes the internal
>> regulator reference count do the trick.
>
> I'm not sure what "the sites where the regulators were actually
> enabled/disabled in respective driver" are but my understanding was that
> there's a bit of an issue here in that the MMC core does not guarantee
> balanced enable/disable calls.

Yeah I figured out what you wanted and sent an updated patch, check
it out. I'll just weave in some comments from Adrian and it'll do things
the way you want it I believe.

Yours,
Linus Walleij