Re: [PATCH 2/3] regulator: add a subdriver for TI TPS6105x regulator portions

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 08:34:51 EST


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> So the fact that the regulator driver doesn't probe doesn't mean any
>> failure, some other driver will likely probe successfully for the chip.
>
> The general approach other MFDs have taken to this is to pay attention
> to the platform data when registering subdevices so that you don't get
> inappropriate subdevices registered in the first place.

Ah, clever. I'll fix.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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