[PATCH 14/15] drivers/regulators: Enable the ab8500 for Device Tree
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue May 8 10:36:46 EDT 2012
On Tuesday 08 May 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:48:14PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 May 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> > > I did run this past Arnd before writing the code and he agreed that this
> > > would be suitable; however, if you know of a better way in which I can
> > > do this, I'd be pleased to hear of it.
>
> > It was the best approach that I could think of for this, but I'm also
> > a total newbie on regulators.
>
> It's not really a regulator thing, what the code is doing is blasting in
> a bunch of magic register writes to set things up, some of which are
> configuring things that the subsystem already knows how to configure.
Right, which is what the driver has done since 79568b9412 "regulator:
initialization for ab8500 regulators" with your ack, so we decided not
to change that and simply move the init data from platform code
to the device tree.
Arnd
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