Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extractregulator_init_data
From: Shawn Guo
Date: Tue Oct 25 2011 - 02:41:33 EST
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:30:19AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Monday 24 October 2011 07:17 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:43:58PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> >>Case 2:
> >>One device for all regulators:
> >>
> >>DT nodes look something like this
> >>
> >>regulators {
> >> reg1: reg@1 {
> >> ...
> >> ...
> >> };
> >>
> >> reg2: reg@2 {
> >> ...
> >> ...
> >> };
> >>};
> >>
> >>The regulator driver probes only one device and the dev->of_node
> >>points to the "regulators" node above.
> >
> >The mc13892 example I put in the reply to Grant demonstrates that
> >for some case, dev->of_node is NULL (devices are created by mfd core).
>
> In that case should you not be first converting the mfd driver to
> register regulator devices using DT?
The mc13892 mfd driver calls mfd_add_devices() to add device for
mc13892 regulator driver. Are you suggesting that I should hack
mfd_add_devices() to have device_node of 'regulators' attached?
The mfd is not a bus like i2c and spi, so I'm not sure this is the
right thing to do.
> Thats what we did for OMAP, and hence we always have the of_node
> populated when the regulator devices are probed.
> See this patch from Benoit on how thats done for twl devices..
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=131489864814428&w=2
>
OMAP is "Case 1", and we are talking about "Case 2".
--
Regards,
Shawn
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