[PATCH v6 1/4] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Thu Sep 13 18:09:55 EST 2012


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:57:44PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Some device drivers (panel backlights especially) need to follow precise
> sequences for powering on and off, involving gpios, regulators, PWMs
> with a precise powering order and delays to respect between each steps.
> These sequences are board-specific, and do not belong to a particular
> driver - therefore they have been performed by board-specific hook
> functions to far.

It does make me a little sad that the DT bindings need to specify the
number of steps but otherwise this looks good (modulo the minor comments
Stephen had as well):

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

I think regardless of the current discussion about some of the
applications (like pwm-backlight) there are going to be cases where this
is useful even if it ends up being more as library code for drivers than 
as something that users work with directly.


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