On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 13:59 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:43:13AM +0000, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > > I don't think it is that fictitious as it makes it crystal clear > > that > > there is something shared with all its pros and cons. E.g. what > > happens > > if one of them regulators wants to turn off while the other one > > still > > needs power? The regular regulator dependency tree would nicely > > make > > this all clear. > > If you're introducing a regulator that doesn't exist in reality > just to be able to share a GPIO line that is wired to several > real regulators, then it _is_ ficticious. You're not describing > the hardware, you're describing something else to work around the > shortcomings of the implementation that can't cope with how stuff > is wired up in the real world. You're making the DT description > fit the software implementation, rather than the software > implementation fit the real world hardware. > > Having a single GPIO that controls multiple separate regulators > which have entirely separate supplies of their own is very common > in electronics. Sure, fine. I will drop it. Thanks!
