Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: usb: usb-nop-xceiv: Repurpose vbus-regulator

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Apr 25 2022 - 16:28:40 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 7:14 PM Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The vbus-regulator property was never actually read from the device tree.
> Introduce a new property vbus-supply to represent the regulator powering
> the VBUS when acting as an A-Device. This supply will be enabled and
> disabled as necessary. Note that this is different from vbus-regulator,
> which represented the available current available to draw from VBUS in
> B-Device mode. Because no one was using vbus-regulator, remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxx>
(...)
> + vbus-supply:
> + description: regulator supplying VBUS. It will be enabled and disabled
> + dynamically in OTG mode.

I would add a small text snippet like this: "If the regulator is controlled by a
GPIO line, this should be modeled as a regulator-fixed and referenced
by this supply" - it's helpful because otherwise people tend to start to
submit weird stuff like adding yet another GPIO for this.

Either way:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij