Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree binding

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Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree binding
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On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:26:58PM -0000, Simon Arlott wrote:
> On Fri, December 4, 2015 11:00, Mark Brown wrote:

> > OK, so the power domains should be being represented and managed as such
> > rather than using regulators - it's a better fit (doing things like
> > support atomic context) and it also sidesteps this.  For the things that
> > you say are clearly regulators should we have more information about
> > those?

> I'd prefer to handle them all as power domains since it fits better. Even
> if some of them are regulators there's no extra control or status interface
> and they're used like power domains to disable unused functionality.

OK, great - runtime PM is just generally a more idiomatic interface for
this.

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[PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-11-30 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] regulator: bcm63xx: Add BCM63xx fixed regulator device Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-11-30 21:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-01 23:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding "Simon Arlott" <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-02 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-02 14:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-02 21:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 01:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-03 09:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 16:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-04 00:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-04 00:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-04 01:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-04 12:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding "Simon Arlott" <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-04 13:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree  binding Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-12-05 18:00 +0100

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