linux-kernel - Re: About [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Provide a dummy regulator with full constraints

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20131008090910.GW21581@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:09:10 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Wei Ni <wni@...dia.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: About [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Provide a dummy regulator
 with full constraints

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:09:02PM +0800, Wei Ni wrote:

> In the latest regulator framework, it default to provide dummy
> regulators with full constraints by your patch "regulator: core: Provide
> a dummy regulator with full constraints".

> I tried to use regulator_get() on lm90.c. If not set vcc-supply property
> in the dts file to assume the regulator is physically present and
> enabled, but it still can't get dummy regulator, just return -ENODEV.
> I traced it, the regulator_dev_lookup() will return -ENODEV, and at that
> time the has_full_constraints is still false, didn't be initialized in
> regulator_init_complete() yet, so it will not return dummy regulator,
> and will not return -EPROBE_DEFER either. This will cause the
> lm90_probe() failed.

> Could you take a look ?

Could you take a look at why we're getting -ENODEV please - this
indicates a problem with the device tree code since it should be what's
requesting probe deferral when it sees a link is present.

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (837 bytes)