[PATCH 01/15] mfd: add new driver for Sharp LoCoMo

Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov dbaryshkov at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 07:30:22 PST 2014


2014-11-14 18:10 GMT+03:00 Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 04:47:00PM +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>
>> I'm actually looking at the regulator interface. Since this DAC serves mostly
>> like a (semi-)constant voltage interface, would it be rather logical to use
>> regulator subsystem to drive it?
>
> Possibly...  it's mostly a function of what the consumers of the
> functionality look like - if that code looks weird calling into the
> regulator API then it's bad, if that code looks OK it's fine.  I haven't
> looked at the hardware at all so don't have strong feelings either way
> so long as the result looks tasteful.

The DAC is used in backlight driver (control brightness) and in ASoC
machine driver (master joined volume).

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry



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