Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] regulator: tps65086: Add regulator driver for the TPS65086 PMIC

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 10/31/2015 09:37 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 05:41:43PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>
> > +struct tps65086_regulator {
> > +	struct regulator_desc desc;
> > +	unsigned int decay_reg;
> > +	unsigned int decay_mask;
>
> The decay_reg and decay_mask fields appear to be entirely write only,
> why are they present?

Not sure what you mean, they are written to differently for each regulator,
and read when setting the decay mode in _probe.

> > +	ret = of_regulator_match(&pdev->dev, pdev->dev.of_node,
> > +				 tps65086_matches,
> > +				 ARRAY_SIZE(tps65086_matches));
> > +	if (ret < 0) {
> > +		dev_err(tps->dev, "Error parsing regulator init data\n");
> > +		return ret;
> > +	}
>
> Please match regulators using the fields in the regulator_desc rather
> than open coding.

I need to match to get the driver specific information for each regulator,
if I let regulator_register do it I never get a chance to process the match,
unless there is a callback or something I'm missing.
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