[RFC v1] regulator: core: introduce regulator chain locking scheme

[Andrii Tseglytskyi]

Hi Mark,

On 04/15/2013 06:50 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> In addition, such locking scheme allows to have access to the supplier
>> regulator API from inside child's (consumer) regulator API.
> I've still not seen any use case articulated for doing this...
Use case is introduced in ABB series:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg88293.html

During voltage scaling we would like to have the following sequence:

cpufreq_cpu0
     |
     |---> set_voltage(ABB)
                 |
                 |->set_voltage(AVS)
                         |
                         |-->set_voltage(smps123)


Where smps123 is a regulator, connected ot i2c bus. In this particular 
case "regulator chain" guarantees proper order of calls of voltage 
scaling sequence.

Regards,
Andrii