[PATCH v3 1/4] arm/dts: regulator: Add tps65910 device tree data

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Aug 21 14:05:15 EDT 2012


On 08/21/2012 10:38 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:48:21AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
>> This .dtsi file adds a node for every single regulator within
>> the TPS65910, which in turn means that of_regulator_match() will
>> find a node for every regulator, and in turn every regulator will
>> be registered. On some boards, not all of those regulators will
>> be used, and hence we don't want all of them to be registered.
> 
> This isn't the general view for the regualtor API - we generally
> want all regulators to be registered in order to allow us to see
> what's going on with things even if we've not figured them out from
> software.

Oh, I said the above specifically because when I added the LDO
configuration for the regulators that weren't used to the Tegra .dts
files, you told me to remove it, based on the comment I put in there
that they weren't used on the board.



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