[RFC PATCH 03/11] DT: regulator: Helper routine to extract regulator_init_data
Rajendra Nayak
rnayak at ti.com
Fri Sep 16 03:15:55 EDT 2011
On Thursday 15 September 2011 07:14 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:51:59PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>
>> .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt | 37 +++++++++
>> drivers/of/Kconfig | 6 ++
>> drivers/of/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/of/of_regulator.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/of_regulator.h | 23 +++++
>
> Don't go hiding the bindings for things away from the code they're
> binding. Bindings for the regualtor API are a regulator API thing and
> should be part of the regulator API code.
Sure, Grant seems to think so too, so I'll just move these into
drivers/regulator/
>
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible: Must be "regulator";
>
> Is this idiomatic or should we just have a helper that parses a big list
> of properties from the device node?
I will just be dropping this and use compatible
to specify the specific device type like "regulator-twl" or
"regulator-fixed".
>
>> +- mode-fast: boolean, Can handle fast changes in its load
>> +- mode-normal: boolean, Normal regulator power supply mode
>> +- mode-idle: boolean, Can be more efficient during light loads
>> +- mode-standby: boolean, Can be most efficient during light loads
>
> I guess these are actually permissions to set the given modes? The
> documentation should be clearer.
Ok
>
>> +- apply-uV: apply uV constraint if min == max
>
> This seems a bit Linux/runtime policy specific (especially the last
> bit).
So these bindings should be defined differently?
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