Subject: Re: [UPDATED v3][PATCH 1/7] regulator: consumer interface
From: ian <spyro@f2s.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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       Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:26:01 +0000
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On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:52 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > I don't see a particular problem fitting this into the structure of
> > the current API - to me the switches inflexible regulators with no
> > configurable voltage control of their own.
> 
> To me, they aren't regulators at all.  :)

I dunno.

Regulate - to control.

A switch certainly controls voltage. Admittedly the granularity is a
little coarser than a nice digitally controlled regulator, but it fits
the model...

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