Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF

From	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF
Date	2017-01-25 21:50 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:21:35PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:29:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I think there's a reasonable chance that any ACPI specs could be written
> > in such a way as to allow transparent support in Linux, the main thing
> > I'd worry about is naming issues.

> I think that the difference between ACPI and DT firmware models,
> in particular in relation to power states handling (and what piece
> of SW is in charge of power management) is significant and goes beyond
> naming conventions, therefore the code (and reasoning behind it - ie
> to have an identical driver interface to a completely different FW
> model) in this series is just not acceptable, that's a plain shortcut.

> We will see how this should be implemented in ACPI, not with this
> code (and FW bindings).

Oh, absolutely - what I'm saying is that once that's done I'd expect
implementing it to be almost entirely a regulator core change in the
same way that implementing DT support was.

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[PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF Furquan Shaikh <furquan@chromium.org> - 2017-01-25 01:10 +0100
  [PATCH 6/7] drivers/gpio: Add and export gpiod_lookup[_index] Furquan Shaikh <furquan@chromium.org> - 2017-01-25 01:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/7] drivers/gpio: Add and export gpiod_lookup[_index] Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-01-26 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 7/7] drivers/regulator: Initialize regulator init data for ACPI regulators Furquan Shaikh <furquan@chromium.org> - 2017-01-25 01:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 13:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 13:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 14:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Furquan Shaikh <furquan@chromium.org> - 2017-01-25 18:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 19:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 19:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 19:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 19:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 20:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 20:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 19:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 20:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 21:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 22:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 22:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 23:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 23:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> - 2017-01-25 22:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-26 00:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> - 2017-01-26 01:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-26 01:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-01-26 11:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 20:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for  ACPI and OF Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 21:50 +0100

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