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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 3/3] dt: Document: Add optional MAX77686 operating mode bindings
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:30:42AM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:

> The max77686 appears to support NORMAL and IDLE mode for most LDOs, so
> the only reasonable values for these two would be 2 and 4. It appears
> that it would also be nonsensical (impossible to map to a register
> value) to have REGULATOR_MODE_NORMAL for suspend and
> REGULATOR_MODE_IDLE for the normal running mode.

The concept of normal and idle modes is Linux-specific, it's not a
generic hardware property. You'd want to have something like the
expected current drain, the regulator API does already have support for
mapping into an optimal mode already.


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