[PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: regulator: Add regulator-output bindingg

[Zev Weiss]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 08:45:34AM PDT, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:44:50PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 08:51:54AM PDT, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> > We don't turn things off on reboot?  We don't do anything in particular
>> > on reboot...
>
>> Okay, perhaps not on reboot specifically, but the userspace-consumer driver
>> has a regulator_bulk_disable() in its .remove function, so it would be
>> triggered at least by a module unload (which is sort of why I ended up with
>> the "when software relinquishes control" wording in the patch).  If we're
>> going to continue with the plan of using that driver for this functionality
>> (which seems overall quite reasonable to me), we need a way to express that
>> that must not happen on this hardware.
>
>Ah, that would be the test driver not intended to be used in production
>then...  That shouldn't be a blocker for the DT binding, and if there's
>a different compatible string for this application then we can either
>make the userspace consumer do something different based on that
>compatible string or have a new driver which does something more
>sensible and perhaps has a better userspace ABI.  Either way so long as
>we can tell the thing being described is a BMC output from the DT
>binding I think we can leave it up to the OS to do something constructive
>with that rather than trying to control the specific behaviour in the
>binding.

Ah, alright -- that seems like a nice (obvious in retrospect, of course) 
solution that should work well I think.  I'll post a v2 with that 
approach soon.


Thanks,
Zev