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From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] regulator: core: fix handling negative voltages e.g.
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 04:35:01PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> An alternative would be to handle voltages as absolute values.
> There are probably no regulators with support both negative
> and positive output.

This is what'd be needed, your approach here is a bit of a hack and
leaves some values unrepresentable if they overlap with errnos which
obviously has issues if someone has a need for those values.  Ground is
to a large extent somewhat arbatrary anyway and some systems do just
redefine it as part of their normal operation (eg, VMID based audio
systems) so this wouldn't be a huge departure.

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