linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init

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Message-ID: <4EA5387E.8090500@ti.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:35:50 +0530
From:	Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>, patches@...aro.org,
	tony@...mide.com, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	lrg@...com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

On Monday 24 October 2011 02:49 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:23:50PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>
>> How about the driver passing the of_node to be associated with the
>> regulator, as part of regulator_desc, to the regulator core,
>> instead of this complete DT search and the restriction of having
>> to match DT node names with names in regulator_desc.
>
> regulator_desc should be const so that we handle multiple instances of
> the same device nicely.  We could pass the information in as an argument
> I guess.

Ok, will do. The only downside being that all existing users would
need to be changed.

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