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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix•de>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc•com>,
	Mathieu Poirer <mathieu.poirier@linaro•org>,
	Robert Marklund <robert.marklund@stericsson•com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh•org>,
	linux-sh@vger•kernel.org, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide•com>,
	linux-omap@vger•kernel.org, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo•org>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin•uclinux.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] net/smsc911x: Add regulator support
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:33:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111028203353.GE23421@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319719691-15799-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com>

Hi Linus,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Robert Marklund <robert.marklund@stericsson•com>
> 
> Add some basic regulator support for the power pins, as needed
> by the ST-Ericsson Snowball platform that powers up the SMSC911
> chip using an external regulator.
> 
> Platforms that use regulators and the smsc911x and have no defined
> regulator for the smsc911x and claim complete regulator
> constraints with no dummy regulators will need to provide it, for
> example using a fixed voltage regulator. It appears that this may
> affect (apart from Ux500 Snowball) possibly these archs/machines
> that from some grep:s appear to define both CONFIG_SMSC911X and
> CONFIG_REGULATOR:
> 
> - ARM Freescale mx3 and OMAP 2 plus, Raumfeld machines
> - Blackfin
> - Super-H
> 

...

>  
> +
> +/*
> + * Request or free resources, currently just regulators.
> + *
> + * The SMSC911x has two power pins: vddvario and vdd33a, in designs where
> + * these are not always-on we need to request regulators to be turned on
> + * before we can try to access the device registers.
> + */
> +static int smsc911x_request_free_resources(struct platform_device *pdev,
> +		bool request)

I had to look twice at this function name. First I thought "request the
free resources?", which other resources would you request if not the
free ones? I think it would be nicer to have two functions instead.
Just my 2 cents.

Sascha


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 12:48 [PATCH 2/2 v3] net/smsc911x: Add regulator support Linus Walleij
2011-10-27 13:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-27 15:46   ` Mark Brown
2011-10-27 20:59     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-27 21:42       ` Mark Brown
2011-10-27 22:43         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-28 20:33 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2011-10-28 23:33   ` Mike Frysinger

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