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

[Stephen Boyd]

On 03/03/15 15:52, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 02:32:35PM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> On Tue 03 Mar 14:09 PST 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>> 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.
> ...but of course we'd never try any operations on it anyway as there
> would be no consumers.

Yes sounds fine. The only concern is that we're probably wasting memory
with things that won't ever "match" something in DT.

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