Hi Mark, > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:10:26PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 03/19/2013 03:27 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > Do we really need a mandatory regulator? Why can't it be optional? > > > > IIRC, the previous advice I've seen is that if a device (driver) uses a > > regulator, it must /require/ a regulator, and if a particular board > > doesn't actually have a SW-controlled regulator, then a fixed- or dummy- > > regulator should be provided to satisfy this requirement. > > > > CC'ing Mark Brown to make sure I really do Recall Correctly. > > Yes, and it should be fixed rather than dummy. The issue is partly that > it's probably important that the device has power so we don't want to > just ignore errors and partly that this is something which applies to > essentially all devices so whatever we do for this case ought to be done > by the core so all devices can benefit and we don't have to duplicate > lots of code in individual drivers. Thanks for clearing this! Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
