Re: [RFC] regulator: Display in use regulators in sysfs

From: Lee Jones
Date: Thu Jan 24 2013 - 04:11:33 EST


On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:19:27AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > We call our reference counts use count but this was in fact the original
> > > design, the local reference counts got dropped due to David Brownell's
> > > forceful insistance :/
>
> > So I should pull the patch?
>
> Not sure what you mean by pull; a stright revert won't work.

Sorry, perhaps I should have been clearer.

Is the patch any good, or should I throw it in the bin (pull it)?

> > How do you feel about being able to access it via sysfs? Good or bad
> > idea? If it's a good idea, I can always change the name of the
> > variable?
>
> That or debugfs.

So the premise of the patch is good and is worth updating and upstreaming?

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