Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2014 18:59:04 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: core: Add reg_ignore_unused to keep boot time regulators enabled | From | Tushar Behera <> |
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On 28 March 2014 15:52, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:50:22AM +0530, Tushar Behera wrote: >> Keep all regulators already enabled by bootloader on, even if no >> driver has claimed them. This is useful for debug and development, but >> should not be needed on a platform with proper driver support. > > That's already the default on non-DT systems so I'd expect that if we > were doing this the code would be joined up with the code for that. I'm > not sure this is a terribly good idea though - we already display a > message just before we power off the regulator and having an option like > this feels like it's going to encourage people to write bad DTs and tell > people to add this to their command line.
I agree with your point that it may lead developers to write bad DTs, but it becomes quite helpful while debugging issues.
-- Tushar Behera
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