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| author |   Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
| commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt | |
| parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) | |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt b/kernel/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fdd919b96 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/power/regulator/design.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Regulator API design notes +========================== + +This document provides a brief, partially structured, overview of some +of the design considerations which impact the regulator API design. + +Safety +------ + + - Errors in regulator configuration can have very serious consequences + for the system, potentially including lasting hardware damage. + - It is not possible to automatically determine the power configuration + of the system - software-equivalent variants of the same chip may + have different power requirements, and not all components with power + requirements are visible to software. + + => The API should make no changes to the hardware state unless it has + specific knowledge that these changes are safe to perform on this + particular system. + +Consumer use cases +------------------ + + - The overwhelming majority of devices in a system will have no + requirement to do any runtime configuration of their power beyond + being able to turn it on or off. + + - Many of the power supplies in the system will be shared between many + different consumers. + + => The consumer API should be structured so that these use cases are + very easy to handle and so that consumers will work with shared + supplies without any additional effort. |