On Tue, 1 May 2012 17:33:03 +0100 Mark Brown
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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:35:59AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:33:22 +0100 Mark Brown

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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:22:09AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:

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The userspace consumer was added for users like this that live entirely
in userspace.

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 I assume you mean REGULATOR_VIRTUAL_CONSUMER (drivers/regulator/virtual.c)?

No, that's just for testing drivers in development.  I mean the
userspace consumer which is hidden away in userspace-consumer.c.

Ahhh, of course.  What a cunning hiding place! :-)

However it doesn't suit my need - I want something more abstracted.

I can see there may well be a place for a simple on/off switch for some
components, but then I would prefer to see it as

   /sys/class/power-switch/$devicename/state

rather than

  /sys/devices/platform/reg-userspace-consumer.X/{name,state}


Thanks,
NeilBrown