linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: Defer lookup of supply to regulator

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:50:54 -0700
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Defer lookup of supply to regulator_get

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:56:05PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> Instead of resolving regulator supplies during registration move this to
> the time of a consumer retrieving a handle. The benefit is that it's
> possible for one driver to register regulators with internal
> dependencies out of order.

This looks basically sensible (as we discussed in person) - I'd like to
poke at this on some systems I've got back home to make sure I'm happy
with the debugging output and so on but I'm not expecting any problems.

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