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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
	Patrick Titiano <ptitiano@baylibre.com>,
	Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
	linux-gpio <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
	linux-pm <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] devicetree: power: add bindings for GPIO-driven power switches
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:58:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMpxmJWw3wCE4ch8TVik+2b3BC8Lvxbi13HGd9GxruSRLu95Mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161213192712.gbaw4t4awayybnta@rob-hp-laptop>

2016-12-13 20:27 GMT+01:00 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:21:44PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> Some boards are equipped with simple, GPIO-driven power load switches.
>> An example of such ICs is the TI tps229* series.
>
> How is this different than a GPIO regulator? The input and output
> voltages just happen to be the same. I could be convinced this is
> different enough to have a different compatible, but it somewhat seems
> you want to use this for IIO, so you are creating a different binding
> for that usecase.
>

It's more of a fixed regulator I suppose. Do you mean adding a new
compatible to the fixed-regulator binding (e.g. "gpio-power-switch" or
"simple-power-switch") and then providing an iio driver for toggling
the switch?

Thanks,
Bartosz

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-14 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-11 22:21 [PATCH 0/2] iio: GPIO power switch support Bartosz Golaszewski
2016-12-11 22:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] devicetree: power: add bindings for GPIO-driven power switches Bartosz Golaszewski
2016-12-13 19:27   ` Rob Herring
2016-12-14 16:58     ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
     [not found]       ` <54679B04-3A57-4F0E-8EE6-BB37785F8E10@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>
2016-12-15 10:57         ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2016-12-15 15:05       ` Rob Herring
2016-12-23  9:07         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-23 11:40           ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-12-30 15:03             ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-12-28 12:52   ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-11 22:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] iio: misc: add support for GPIO " Bartosz Golaszewski
2016-12-28 12:50   ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-29 16:29     ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-12-30 13:05       ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-30 15:15         ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-01-02 21:53           ` Linus Walleij

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