Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934691AbcLMT1q (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:27:46 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f68.google.com ([209.85.218.68]:34005 "EHLO mail-oi0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933420AbcLMT1R (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:27:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:27:12 -0600 From: Rob Herring To: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Jonathan Cameron , Hartmut Knaack , Lars-Peter Clausen , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , Mark Rutland , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Hilman , Patrick Titiano , Neil Armstrong , Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Sebastian Reichel , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown , Liam Girdwood Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] devicetree: power: add bindings for GPIO-driven power switches Message-ID: <20161213192712.gbaw4t4awayybnta@rob-hp-laptop> References: <1481494905-18037-1-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> <1481494905-18037-2-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1481494905-18037-2-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2-neo (2016-08-21) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 494 Lines: 11 On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:21:44PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > Some boards are equipped with simple, GPIO-driven power load switches. > An example of such ICs is the TI tps229* series. How is this different than a GPIO regulator? The input and output voltages just happen to be the same. I could be convinced this is different enough to have a different compatible, but it somewhat seems you want to use this for IIO, so you are creating a different binding for that usecase. Rob