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

[Dmitry Osipenko]

21.06.2021 15:34, Mark Brown пишет:
> 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.
> 

I'll prepare patch to fix the Kconfig entry of the coupler drivers,
thank you.