Re: [PATCH 1/5] regulator: core: Resolve supply earlier

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:46:12PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:59:02AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:

> > Also, if we add this call, then I am wondering if we still need ...
> > 
> > 	class_for_each_device(&regulator_class, NULL, NULL,
> > 			      regulator_register_resolve_supply);

> Possibly not. That line was introduced to hook up existing orphan
> regulators with their parents when they were registered, but I guess
> since we now always defer probe if a parent isn't registered yet the
> line would become a no-op.

That then takes us right the way back to the original problem where
people we're getting upset at the number of probe deferrals they were
seeing and more importantly we didn't have any way of sorting out
dependencies within a single PMIC if the parents weren't registered
before their children.

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