Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Optimise enable/disable path foralways on regulators

[Liam Girdwood]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 13:30 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> If a regulator is always on for any reason then cache that when the
> consumer is created and use it to optimise away the need to take locks
> or recurse up the supply tree when consumers do enable or disable calls.
> The scheduling of asynchronous work for bulk enables is also skipped.
> 
> We don't actually check if the device physically supports control on the
> basis that constraints allowing status changes on physically always on
> regulators are nonsensical anyway.
> 
> This is a very common pattern in hardware - it's normal to have some
> power supplies that have either no software control or are critical to
> system function - so many systems should be able to benefit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@xxxxxx>

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