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SubjectRe: [lm-sensors] regulator: regulator_get behaviour without CONFIG_REGULATOR set
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On 6 Apr 2010, at 17:25, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 04/06/10 16:27, Liam Girdwood wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I suppose this is something we may look into more when we have more
>> clients.
> Makes sense. There will probably be quite a few IIO drivers over
> the next
> few months doing much the same as sht15, where the voltage ref for
> devices
> may well be fed by a regulator. In that case, we may only offer the
> option
> of using an external v_ref if the regulator is available. Many
> devices have
> an internal regulator to provide it so typically we'll start them up
> using that
> and provide an interface to switch to external regulator if one is
> available.
> I haven't thought through exactly how this will work as yet. I'll cc
> people in
> when this comes up.

TBH this seems like a very vanilla use case - there may be some small
advantage to representing the internal regulator via the regulator API
but that's about the only thing I can think might be a bit odd.


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