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Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:09:27 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gpio: Add reference counting for non-exclusive GPIOs
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:00:01PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:25:22PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > help the multiple users find each other somehow.  I think what we want
> > to do here is either push the gpiod requests into the regulator core or
> > change things so that once the regulator is registered with the
> > regulator core the regulator core owns and is responsible for freeing
> > the regulator.

> On the co-ordinating do we expect that the behaviour will
> be that the GPIO should in the "enabled" state whenever any
> regulator is requesting it? IE. the GPIO state is an OR of
> the regulator states. Or are we expecting to handle more
> complex interaction?

For the regulators that's what we do, yes - it's like they're all
sharing a single regulator.  That probably won't be true in general for
all GPIO users.

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