Re: [patch 2.6.28-rc7] regulator: catch some registration errors

[Liam Girdwood]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 21:50 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Prevent registration of duplicate "struct regulator" names.
> They'd be unavailable, and clearly indicate something wrong.

This part is fine.

> 
> Also make sure the consumer device is provided.  It's nonsensical
> to omit these, and not a documented part of the interface.  Since
> no code in mainline does such stuff, this is just anti-oops medicine.
> 

I think Mark has probably mentioned the need to support CPUfreq drivers
with no struct device. I had a quick scan of the current in tree ARM
CPUfreq drivers and could not find one that uses struct device (someone
will now find one). 

I wonder if there is another way to approach this as I do agree that
passing NULL is probably not the best solution. Alternatives like
embedding struct device with the CPUfreq core or adding a regulator_get
API call for CPUfreq drivers all involve some work. Fwiw, I'd be happy
enough with the latter option.

Thanks

Liam

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