[RFC PATCH 06/11] DT: regulator: Helper routine to extract fixed_voltage_config

[Rajendra Nayak]

On Friday 16 September 2011 02:31 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:49:17PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>> On Thursday 15 September 2011 07:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:52:02PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>
>>>> +# For fixed voltage regulators
>>>> +- supply-name: Name of the regulator supply
>>>> +- microvolts: Output voltage of regulator
>>>> +- gpio: gpio to use for enable control
>>>> +- startup-delay: startup time in microseconds
>>>> +- enable-high: Polarity of enable GPIO, 1 = Active High, 0 = Active low
>>>> +- enabled-at-boot: 1 = yes, 0 = no
>
>>> Much of this is specific to the Linux fixed voltage regulator driver
>>> rather than a generic regulator with a fixed voltage.
>
>> So how should these non-generic things be handled through device
>> tree? Should they never be part of dt or should the bindings just be
>> defined such that its clear they are linux specific?
>
> Having them be part of the fixed voltage regulator bindings would be
> fine, the problem is that you're adding this in framework code not in a
> driver.

agree, will make the bindings fixed voltage regulator specific.