[PATCH v3 1/4] arm/dts: regulator: Add tps65910 device tree data
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Fri Aug 24 16:16:34 EDT 2012
* Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> [120821 11:09]:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:05:15PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 08/21/2012 10:38 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> The board shouldn't have to define the regulators, the regulator driver
> really ought to be able to figure out that they're there by itself if
> there's no configuration based purely on knowing which chip is there.
> From that point of view it's OK for the chip .dtsi to have them (though
> ideally the driver wouldn't *need* that either) which was what was
> happening here.
So I assume no changes needed here then?
Regards,
Tony
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