Re: [PATCH] Revert "regulator: fixed: add support for ACPI interface"

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jan 26 2017 - 05:56:13 EST


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This reverts commit 13bed58ce8748d430a26e353a09b89f9d613a71f.
>
> While there does appear to be a practical need to manage regulators on ACPI
> systems, using ad-hoc properties to describe regulators to the kernel presents
> a number of problems (especially should ACPI gain first class support for such
> things), and there are ongoing discussions as to how to manage this.
>
> Until there is a rough consensus, revert commit 13bed58ce8748d43,

FWIW, I overlooked this one somehow and I agree that it shouldn't have
been applied in the first place.

Did it actually go to linux-acpi, BTW?

Thanks,
Rafael