[PATCH 0/6] regulator: core: Add support for external outputs

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed May 4 22:56:13 AEST 2022


On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 11:50:35PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:

> The DT bindings changes (patches 1 and 2) consist of a boolean
> regulator property to mark it as supplying an external output, and a
> reg-external-output binding to act as a downstream device representing
> that output.  The redundancy between the two maybe isn't entirely
> ideal, but it was the cleanest approach I've been able to come up with
> so far in terms of working with the regulator subsystem; I'm certainly
> open to suggestions for better ways of going about this.

Nothing in the series articulates what the purpose of the redundancy is
- your description of this is a consumer, why would the regulator itself
care what's connected to it?
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