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

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Message-ID: <5130A3FD.3030207@slimlogic.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:50:05 +0000
From:	Ian Lartey <ian@...mlogic.co.uk>
To:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
CC:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Graeme Gregory <gg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>, "lrg@...com" <lrg@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: palmas: use correct device node for DT parsing

On 01/03/13 12:45, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Friday 01 March 2013 12:09 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> If I make the dts file as
>                          #gpio-cells = <2>;
>                          gpio-controller;
>
>                         palmas_pmic {
>                                 compatible = "ti,palmas-pmic";
>                                 ti,ldo6_vibrator = <0>;
>
>                                 regulators {
>                                      :::::::::::::
>                                  }
>                          }
>
>
> then regulator get registered properly.
> And hence this patch is not require here.
>

Yes that would do it.

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