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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/12] regulator: gpio-regulator: Only read GPIO [dis|en]able pin if not always-on
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:48:18AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:55:51AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > If a regulator is specified as always-on, then it can't have an
> > > enable/disable pin, as it can't be turned off.

> > Sometimes always on gets set for regulators which do have a physical
> > control wired up - the control might exist for use in suspend mode for
> > example. Is the ability to specify an enable pin causing a practical
> > problem for systems? If it is we should fix that.

> My logic is that there is no point in requesting a pin which can
> disable a regulator that can't be disabled. Then we can follow
> on from that logic and say that if a regulator is _not_ always on
> this we _require_ a way to disable it, thus we insist on an enable
> GPIO pin.

> With me?

No. Making the enable pin optional for always on regulators is fine,
forbidding it is not - that won't work for things like the suspend case
I mentioned.


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