Hi,

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:26:43AM +0900, Hugh Kang wrote:
> From: "hugh.kang" <hugh.kang@lge.com>
> 
> If a regulator is set by always-on option, the regulator will be set forever.
> For example, suppose LDO1 is set to always-on at RevA.dts with including of a.dtsi. After that
> RevB.dts may wants to include the same a.dtsi but override the LDO1 always-on option. However,
> currently there is no way to delete the always-on option, even when we change the LDO1 option value,
> the always-on setting is still remains.

Why don't you split your devicetrees according to the real hardware and
set the always-on property only for revA?

Regards,

Markus

> 
> Signed-off-by: hugh.kang <hugh.kang@lge.com>
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c
> index ee5e67b..4178dbd 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,13 @@ static void of_get_regulation_constraints(struct device_node *np,
>  		constraints->valid_ops_mask |= REGULATOR_CHANGE_CURRENT;
>  
>  	constraints->boot_on = of_property_read_bool(np, "regulator-boot-on");
> +	if (of_property_read_bool(np, "regulator-disable-boot-on"))
> +		constraints->boot_on = false;
> +
>  	constraints->always_on = of_property_read_bool(np, "regulator-always-on");
> +	if (of_property_read_bool(np, "regulator-disable-always-on"))
> +		constraints->always_on = false;
> +
>  	if (!constraints->always_on) /* status change should be possible. */
>  		constraints->valid_ops_mask |= REGULATOR_CHANGE_STATUS;
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 
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