Hi, On some boards, devices consuming a lot of power cannot use a single regulator, but few of them in parallel to spread the consumption.
In such a case, we must ensure that all these regulators are kept in sync. Since this is something that is totally board specific, it should obviously not be handle by each and every customer drivers that might be driving a device wired this way on a particular board. Instead, we implemented a regulator driver that just aggregates several parent regulators and just forwards the regulators calls to them. Let me know what you think, Maxime Maxime Ripard (2): regulator: Add coupled regulator ARM: sunxi: chip: Add Wifi chip arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-r8-chip.dts | 44 ++++- drivers/regulator/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/regulator/Makefile | 1 + drivers/regulator/coupled-voltage-regulator.c | 241 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 drivers/regulator/coupled-voltage-regulator.c -- 2.6.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
