linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: palmas: use correct device node for DT parsing

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Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:39:28 +0800
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Graeme Gregory <gg@...mlogic.co.uk>
Cc:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, swarren@...dia.com,
	ian@...mlogic.co.uk, lrg@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: palmas: use correct device node for DT parsing

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:23:42PM +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On 27/02/13 14:10, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

> > When device is registered through the DT then regulators node
> > exist in the parent device node of regulator driver. Hence passing
> > parent device node for parsing DT in place of self-device node
> > which is typically NULL.

> > -	struct device_node *node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> > +	struct device_node *node = pdev->dev.parent->of_node;

> This is not correct, nor is the reasoning.

> I suspect your previous patch broke DT probing so your not getting nodes
> filled in.

So, the reason that this pattern has generally been followed is so that
the regulator core can do the equivalent of regulator_get(dev, supply)
to find the supplies.  Using the parent device there is particularly
important in non-DT systems so that we can map the child regulator
supply in by using the dev_name() of the parent rather than the MFD
internal subdevice name but for pure DT systems where it's all just
direct links it's less of an issue.

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