Re: [PATCH v1] regulator: core: Add stubs for driver API

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 03:04:30PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 21.06.2021 14:46, Mark Brown пишет:

> > Why would something be registering a regulator device without a
> > dependency on the regulator API?

> For example if regulator device registration is optional in the code. We
> don't have such cases in the kernel today, but I decided that it will be
> cleaner to add stubs for the whole API.

It doesn't strike me as the sort of thing that should be optional TBH.
It seems much more likely that not having the stub will catch silly
errors than that the stubs will make something work that should.

> If you think that it will be better to add the dependency to the coupler
> drivers, then let's do it.

For coupler drivers it's not clear what function they serve without the
regulator API being enabled.

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