Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:27:26 -0800 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: Would devm_regulator_enable be useful ? |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:21:52PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 04:23:59PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > As previously mentioned please fix your mailer to word wrap at a > sensible limit. > I thought I did ;-). I'll try to make sure I only send e-mail to you using mutt in the future ... but I notice that your line length is less than the one I configured, so maybe that is the problem here.
> > Seems to me it would be useful to have it, but then devm_clk_enable() > > doesn't exist either, so I wonder if there is a reason for not having > > it. > > In both cases enabling and then leaving the resource enabled throughout > the runtime of the device isn't normally the best practice for using > them. You usually want to enable and disable at runtime with mechanisms > like runtime PM when the device is idle rather than burning power all > the time and once you start doing that managed resources don't fit so > well.
Ok, I accept that. I thought that was what devm_xxx_[disable,remove] etc was for, though.
Thanks, Guenter
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