Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: qcom: Rework to single platform device

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Tue 03 Mar 14:09 PST 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> On 03/02/15 20:25, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > -	config.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> > +static int rpm_reg_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > +{
> > +	const struct rpm_regulator_data *reg;
> > +	const struct of_device_id *match;
> > +	struct regulator_config config = { };
> > +	struct regulator_dev *rdev;
> > +	struct qcom_rpm_reg *vreg;
> >  
> > -	ret = rpm_reg_of_parse(pdev->dev.of_node, &vreg->desc,
> > -			       &config, initdata);
> > -	if (ret)
> > -		return ret;
> > +	match = of_match_device(rpm_of_match, &pdev->dev);
> > +	for (reg = match->data; reg->name; reg++) {
> 
> How does this work for the case where we may not want to add all the
> regulators that a PMIC supports. I'm mostly thinking about the case
> where we want to use the pm8xxx-regulator driver for a few regulators
> and so we omit them from the DT for the RPM regulators.
> 

An empty or non-existing regulator of_node will still be registered, but
without REGULATOR_CHANGE_STATUS nor REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE; so any
operation on this regulator will fail with an -EPERM.

Regards,
Bjorn
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