linux-kernel - Re: lm90 driver no longer working on PCs in 3.13

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:02:16 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	LM Sensors <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Wei Ni <wni@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: lm90 driver no longer working on PCs in 3.13

On 01/26/2014 01:53 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 01:40:30PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 01/26/2014 01:22 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> What is this platform and why does it have the regulator API enabled in
>>> the first place?
>
>> It is a PC running Ubuntu. you'd have to ask the distro maintainers why they
>> turn on regulators.
>
>> config-3.8.0-26-generic:CONFIG_REGULATOR=y
>> config-3.8.0-35-generic:CONFIG_REGULATOR=y
>> config-3.11.0-13-generic:CONFIG_REGULATOR=y
>
> Oh, magic.  Can you please file a bug with or otherwise talk to them
> asking them to turn that off (or contribute code to make it work)?  Feel
> free to add me as a CC when you do so.
>

That means they would have to stop supporting anything that _does_ need regulators,
which doesn't make much sense to me.

I think the bug is on your side, not theirs.

Guenter

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