lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Mar]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Enabling pmbus power control
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 03:34:16AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> (and I don't know if the userspace consumer code is appropriate - you
> might want to check with the regulator maintainer on that).

It's not, you should never see this in a production system.

> > first attempt at this ran into problems with all the
> > reg-userspace-consumer instances getting attached to the first
> > regulator device, I think due to all of the regulators ending up under
> > the same name in the global namespace of regulator_map_list.  I worked
> > around that by adding an ID counter to produce a unique name for each,
> > though that changes device names in userspace-visible ways that I'm
> > not sure would be considered OK for backwards compatibility.  (I'm not
> > familiar enough with the regulator code to know if there's a better
> > way of fixing that problem.)  The #if-ing to keep it behind a Kconfig

> Maybe ask that question on the regulator mailing list.

I can't really tell what the issue is here without more context, the
global name list should not be relevant for much in a system that's well
configured so it sounds like it's user error.
[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-03-30 13:25    [W:0.043 / U:0.076 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site