Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752289AbbEZJgk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 05:36:40 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:56489 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751336AbbEZJgi (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 05:36:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:36:01 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Tomeu Vizoso Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Marchesin , Thierry Reding , Dmitry Torokhov , Alexander Holler , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Liam Girdwood , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Message-ID: <20150526093601.GH21577@sirena.org.uk> References: <1432565608-26036-1-git-send-email-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> <1432565608-26036-11-git-send-email-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> <20150525173244.GE21577@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AMnfhCSTHOurdchq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: Positively no smoking. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.94.161 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/21] regulator: core: Probe regulators on demand X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1747 Lines: 43 --AMnfhCSTHOurdchq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:17:23AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On 25 May 2015 at 19:32, Mark Brown wrote: > > The obvious questions here based on the name are why we're doing > > something specific to platform devices and why this isn't something > > we're abstracting in the driver core (or at least generic firmware code) > > - we're going to have the same thing with ACPI. > I don't know how useful this is going to be in systems with ACPI. My > experience is limited to 32bit ARM, where the kernel has to manage > every regulator, clock, gpio, etc so the dependency tree is so big. Is > deferred probing a problem with ACPI as well? Yes, x86 based embedded systems use ACPI (and we really ought to be trying to help systems using board files too for that matter). --AMnfhCSTHOurdchq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVZD6AAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQh3oH+weinw3VgpMpOvLKs1v2WbJQ EHArthVB34XBwIruTnqhaLDYP+pSH8jUhzbYPqEOSYXHVZVMyQqa5w4TJ6G4L1ye s36+vD7nCWzr6d3SDKpymDWLP+toLXfdY5Vht3cMGs5nOKvkzg8FDWsrlQmIE5U1 eGXKeym67xJ676E27qwWXJnegCmNjpFgNBm84pKLBcB5yl0NjrE5ix+2kvJhawcd wAbUgT6fEipBjh17WfrqMpJwENRYEaJVlUQ43QcUBVJsSBwUlCTeb9OKbcqDIQ11 eSbXWE1pUeiq7aW+Yf3xPGnDvVxl+qYWd3IgUaoaCrrSukszgBGOtPo6vQ77ueo= =a9IA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AMnfhCSTHOurdchq-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/