Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: lp872x: Add enable GPIO pin support

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On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 07:12:53PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 décembre 2015 à 11:56 +0000, Mark Brown a écrit :

> > This isn't really adding support for the enable GPIO as the changelog
> > suggests, it's requesting but not managing the GPIO.  Since there is
> > core support for manging enable GPIOs this seems especially silly,
> > please tell the core about the GPIO and then it will work at runtime
> > too.

> It looks like the core bindings for GPIO can only be used instead of the
> rdev->desc->ops->enable callback, not jointly, which doesn't fit my use
> case, where both the GPIO and register write have to be used to enable
> regulators.

> I think it would be worth making it possible to use both in core, since
> that situation is probably shared with other regulators. I suggest the
> following diff (that would be split into a separate patch in v2 of this
> series):

No, that's broken - the whole point with using a GPIO for enable control
on a lot of devices is that it is much faster than doing a register
write.  What I would expect to happen in this case is that when
initialsing the GPIO we set the register to enabled and then only manage
the GPIO at runtime.

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