Re: [PATCH 1/2] devicetree: power: add bindings for GPIO-driven power switches

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Dec 13 2016 - 14:28:59 EST


On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:21:44PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> Some boards are equipped with simple, GPIO-driven power load switches.
> An example of such ICs is the TI tps229* series.

How is this different than a GPIO regulator? The input and output
voltages just happen to be the same. I could be convinced this is
different enough to have a different compatible, but it somewhat seems
you want to use this for IIO, so you are creating a different binding
for that usecase.

Rob