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From: Liam Girdwood on 12 Feb 2010 06:30
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:18 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> In order to ease transitions with drivers are boards start using regulators
> provide an option to cause all regulator_get() calls to succeed, with a
> dummy always on regulator being supplied where one has not been configured.
> A warning is printed whenever the dummy regulator is used to aid system
> development.
>
> This regulator does not implement any regulator operations but will allow
> simple consumers which only do enable() and disable() calls to run. It
> is kept separate from the fixed voltage regulator to avoid Kconfig
> confusion on the part of users when it is extended to allow boards to
> explicitly use the dummy regulator to simplify cases where the majority
> of supplies are from fixed regulators without software control.
>
> This option is currently only effective for systems which do not specify
> full constriants. If required an override could also be provided to allow
> these systems to use the dummy regulator, though it is likely that
> unconfigured supplies on such systems will lead to error due to
> regulators being powered down more aggressively when not in use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie(a)opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
>

Applied.

Thanks

Liam

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