Hi Mark, On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:54:26 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:13:02PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > While the regulator subsystem presents itself as aiming at power > > savings to improve battery life, it doesn't seem fundamentally > > different from the need you described. Whether you lower current draw > > to save battery life or to prevent the hardware from dying, makes > > little difference, the underlying mechanisms should be pretty similar. > > Actually the regulator API isn't really about power savings - it's about > voltage and current regulation. Higher layers can use these features to > save power but it's not somethnig the regulator API cares about. If the > documentation suggests it is we might want to fix that up. I came up to this conclusion after reading the CONFIG_REGULATOR help text in Kconfig. I'll let you decide if this should get improved in any way. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
