Re: [PATCH] regulator: Defer init completion for a while after late_initcall

[Mark Brown]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 04:27:00PM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:

> Well, actually the 4 lines above give a good hint :) of_get_regulator()
> will look for "dvdd25-supply-supply". I'm fairly relieved that even you
> didn't spot this right away. The fix just went to dri-devel, you're Cc'ed.
> Unfortunately the documentation for this is buried in the git commit log.

Glad you got to the bottom of this!  Like I said in reply to your
fix (which I saw first) this is covered in the DT binding
documentation for the regultaor API.

> For the record: I'm still convinced that the original change can uncover
> bugs unexpectedly, and is not suited for -stable.

Yeah, it's definitely at the upper limit of what I consider safe
for stable but it seems to fit the risk profile of what stable
wants to include these days and there was demand for it from
people working on DT based laptops and desktops.

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