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Subject: Re: Optional regulators in bulk operations - reverted patch
To: bjorn.andersson@linaro.org
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From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:59:24 +0100
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Am 31.01.2017 um 22:43 schrieb Heiner Kallweit:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> I just came across a use case where I wanted to deal with optional
> regulators in bulk operations. I was about to submit a related
> patch when I saw that you submitted basically the same in
> 3ff3f518a135 "regulator: Make bulk API support optional supplies"
> and reverted it later stating that you misunderstood the API.
> 
> How does this extension break the API? To me it sounds like a
> neat feature.
> 
> The only thing I can think of if that we have to assume that
> struct regulator_bulk_data is zero-initialized to ensure
> backwards-compatibility (use "normal" get as default).
> 
> Rgds, Heiner
> 
Sorry for the noise, I got it meanwhile.