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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Pingbo Wen <pingbo.wen@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, stephen.boyd@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: introduce boot protection flag
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:42:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160617114235.GK26099@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57636FC1.3040607@linaro.org>

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:34:25AM +0800, Pingbo Wen wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 09:32 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Having the consumer driver know that it's "critical" seems wrong since
> > different systems may have different ideas about that, it's probably
> > better to hook this in with the device model so that when the device
> > finishes probing that kicks things off.

> That will imply the protection would be end when the specific device has
> probed, and consumers should take their place at the same time. But
> there have some other devices, which will set the consumer in a IRQ
> event, or after some other events, can't be covered.

I don't understand what this means, sorry.

> We can set the protection flag easily, but it's hard to tell whether a
> consumer is well initialized, the end of protection, since regulator
> consumer is not initialized within one call.

If the driver is not initializing itself during probe the driver is
doing something wrong and needs to be fixed anyway.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-17 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-09  7:05 [RFC PATCH] regulator: introduce boot protection flag WEN Pingbo
2016-06-08 17:16 ` Mark Brown
2016-06-15 12:05   ` Pingbo Wen
2016-06-15 13:32     ` Mark Brown
2016-06-17  3:34       ` Pingbo Wen
2016-06-17 11:42         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2016-06-23 12:02           ` Pingbo Wen

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