Re: [PATCH 6/8] regulator: max77686: Add external GPIO control

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:07:02PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On pią, 2014-10-31 at 10:32 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > We could always add a callback for the driver to handle any custom
> > properties...  one of the advantages of an OS like Linux is that we can
> > improve the core code.

> I thought about this - adding a callback, called on each child in
> regulator_of_get_init_data(). However the reason behind this callback is
> to parse GPIO and set config.ena_gpio. However in that context the
> regulator_config is const so the callback cannot change it. Unless it
> casts it to non-const... which isn't what we want I think.

> So now I wonder whether adding generic bindings for ena_gpio make sense.
> These would look like bindings for fixed-regulator (with "ena-" prefix).
> Unfortunately this would duplicate a little the ena_gpio in
> regulator_config... but to me it seems more appropriate.

> What do you think about adding generic bindings for ena_gpio?

Well, if you only want this for enable GPIO control (sorry, I'm really
not reading a lot of these long threads when it looks like there'll be a
resubmit anyway) we can always add a way for drivers to specify the name
of a property to look at easily enough.

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