linux-kernel - Re: Da903x regulator driver. Bug?

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:44:16 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	eric miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Da903x regulator driver. Bug?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:53:37PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

> >> is 2 layers down rather than one requiring quite a few changes
> >> to   
> >>  struct device *da9034_dev = rdev_get_dev(rdev)->parent->parent;
> >> from
> >>     struct device *da9034_dev = rdev_get_dev(rdev)->parent;

> >> So either a change to the regulator framework is needed to
> >> allow mfd's or these extra ->parent lines need to go in in lots
> >> of places.

> >> Which do people prefer?

> > Could you fix in a similar method to the wm8350/wm8400. 

> Based on a quick look, I think this involves carrying around
> an additional copy of the device pointer inside the driver data.

> If so that would indeed work.

Yes, I'm actively using these.  I had been considering going back and
removing the extra layer of platform device from the code for WM8350 and
WM8400 since there is now less benefit to it but I would probably still
continue to use the driver_data to store the pointer to the wm8350 data
since I find that gives clear code.

The current situation was a minimal adaption to avoid churn in the core
API close to release - previously the regulator had been forced to be a
platform device but this was changed since we have to allocate a new
device when registering the regulator in order to have the class work in
sysfs.
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