linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] video: mxsfb: get supply regulator optionally

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Date:   Tue, 6 Sep 2016 23:22:36 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
Cc:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>, plagnioj@...osoft.com,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: mxsfb: get supply regulator optionally

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:23:31AM -0700, Stefan Agner wrote:
> On 2016-09-06 01:21, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

> > In order to ease transitions with drivers are boards start using regulators
> > provide an option to cause all regulator_get() calls to succeed, with a
> > dummy always on regulator being supplied where one has not been configured.
> > A warning is printed whenever the dummy regulator is used to aid system
> > development.

> I think we should either make the property mandatory and fix the device
> trees or we should fix the driver to support an optional regulator. The
> code already supports the reg_lcd being NULL, which is probably mostly
> pointless right now as devm_regulator_get always returns a dummy
> regulator.

I think you're agreeing with each other here (and me).

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