linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: dt: tegra: harmony: add regulators

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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:14:32 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	"olof@...om.net" <olof@...om.net>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dt: tegra: harmony: add regulators

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:08:45PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> The patch in this thread adds all the required regulators to the DT
> file. However, it should also remove the special case so the
> regulators don't get registered twice, once from the board file and
> once from DT. However, doing that would prevent regulators getting
> registered at all, since v3.6-rc* don't have all the required
> (TPS6586x) regulator (driver) patches to get the regulators
> instantiated from DT. Everything will only work in linux-next or
> sometime during the 3.7 merge window.  Hence, git bisect would be broken.

> One solution to this is to bring the regulator tree into the Tegra
> tree as a dependency, and then apply a patch which adds the regulators
> to DT, and removes the special case from the board file. I'm asking
> for your OK to do that.

Why not just pull the patch in via the regulator tree?  The idea of
merging the entire regulator drivers branch into the Tegra tree doesn't
seem awesome...

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