On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On 6 Apr 2010, at 17:25, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 04/06/10 16:27, Liam Girdwood wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> I suppose this is something we may look into more when we have more > >> clients. > > Makes sense. There will probably be quite a few IIO drivers over > > the next > > few months doing much the same as sht15, where the voltage ref for > > devices > > may well be fed by a regulator. In that case, we may only offer the > > option > > of using an external v_ref if the regulator is available. Many > > devices have > > an internal regulator to provide it so typically we'll start them up > > using that > > and provide an interface to switch to external regulator if one is > > available. > > I haven't thought through exactly how this will work as yet. I'll cc > > people in > > when this comes up. > > TBH this seems like a very vanilla use case - there may be some small > advantage to representing the internal regulator via the regulator API > but that's about the only thing I can think might be a bit odd. > -- Although may be quite useful here for any mfd devices where the core has regulators that only supply the other on chip functions. Liam -- Freelance Developer, SlimLogic Ltd ASoC and Voltage Regulator Maintainer. http://www.slimlogic.co.uk _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
