[PATCH] ARM: 3ds_debugboard: Let ethernet be functional again

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Feb 14 05:58:23 EST 2012


On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 06:48:21AM -0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:27:41AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 
> > I really don't want to have that much code for saying 'we don't have a
> > regulator, just make this stupid driver happy'. This is fine for one
> > board, but not for the more than a dozen users of this driver in the tree.
> > We should really add a helper to simplify this.
> 
> If the board really has so few software controlled regulators then they
> should just be using the dummy regulator support which already exists,
> someone should just add a knob to turn it on automatically.

I thought we agree that generally turning on the dummy regulator is a
bad idea. Now you are advocating for the dummy regulator again.

Sascha

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