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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>,
	zhang.chunyan@linaro.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] regulator: core: fix boot-on regulators use_count usage
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:14:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190923181431.GU2036@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=W7M8mwQqnPyU9vsK5VAdqqJdQdyxcoe9FRRGTY8zjnFw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:02:26AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:

> I will freely admit my ignorance here, but I've always been slightly
> confused by the "always-on" vs. "boot-on" distinction...

> The bindings say:

>   regulator-always-on:
>     description: boolean, regulator should never be disabled

>   regulator-boot-on:
>     description: bootloader/firmware enabled regulator

> For 'boot-on' that's a bit ambiguous about what it means.  The
> constraints have a bit more details:

Boot on means that it's powered on when the kernel starts, it's
for regulators that we can't read back the status of.

> ...but then that begs the question of why we have two attributes?
> Maybe this has already been discussed before and someone can point me
> to a previous discussion?  We should probably make it more clear in
> the bindings and/or the constraints.

boot-on just refers to the status at boot, we can still turn
those regulators off later on if we want to.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-23 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-17 15:40 [PATCH 0/3] Regulator core fixes Marco Felsch
2019-09-17 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] regulator: core: fix boot-on regulators use_count usage Marco Felsch
2019-09-23 18:02   ` Doug Anderson
2019-09-23 18:14     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2019-09-23 18:36       ` Doug Anderson
2019-09-23 18:49         ` Mark Brown
2019-09-23 22:40           ` Doug Anderson
2019-09-24 18:27             ` Mark Brown
2019-09-26 19:44               ` Doug Anderson
2019-09-27  8:47                 ` Marco Felsch
2019-10-01 19:57                   ` Doug Anderson
2019-10-04  6:34                     ` Matti Vaittinen
2019-10-04 11:32                       ` Mark Brown
2019-10-04 12:03                         ` Vaittinen, Matti
2019-10-04 15:01                           ` Mark Brown
2019-10-07  9:34                     ` Marco Felsch
2019-10-07 18:29                       ` Mark Brown
2019-10-08  6:03                         ` Marco Felsch
2019-10-08 12:51                           ` Mark Brown
2019-10-08 14:56                             ` Marco Felsch
2019-10-08 15:42                               ` Mark Brown
2019-10-08 16:16                                 ` Marco Felsch
2019-10-08 16:23                                   ` Mark Brown
2019-10-08 20:16                                     ` Marco Felsch
2019-10-09  9:54                                       ` Mark Brown
2019-09-17 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] regulator: of: fix suspend-min/max-voltage parsing Marco Felsch
2019-09-17 16:02   ` Applied "regulator: of: fix suspend-min/max-voltage parsing" to the regulator tree Mark Brown
2019-09-17 15:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] regulator: core: make regulator_register() EPROBE_DEFER aware Marco Felsch
2019-09-17 16:02   ` Applied "regulator: core: make regulator_register() EPROBE_DEFER aware" to the regulator tree Mark Brown
2019-09-18  0:57   ` [PATCH 3/3] regulator: core: make regulator_register() EPROBE_DEFER aware Dmitry Torokhov
2019-09-18  8:18     ` Marco Felsch
2019-09-18 15:53       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-09-18 16:06         ` Marco Felsch
2019-09-18 16:08         ` Mark Brown

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