linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] regulator: axp20x: resolve self dependency issue

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Message-ID: <53837298.5080705@free-electrons.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 May 2014 18:58:00 +0200
From:	Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Carlo Caione <carlo@...one.org>,
	Shuge <shuge@...winnertech.com>, kevin@...winnertech.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	dev@...ux-sunxi.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] regulator: axp20x: resolve self dependency issue

Hello Mark,

On 26/05/2014 17:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:58:12PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
>> Some regulators might take their power supply from other regulators defined
>> by the same PMIC.
>>
>> Retry regulators registration until all regulators are registered or the
>> last iteration didn't manage to register any new regulator (which means
>> there's an external dependency missing and we can thus return
>> EPROBE_DEFER).
> This is going to apply to most PMICs - we should factor this out into
> the core rather than implementing it individual drivers.  It works
> normally because typically the dependency is from DCDCs to LDOs and so
> with common naming schemes alphabetic sorting saves us.

I'm not sure I get what you mean.

AFAIU, we could factorize it by the mean of an helper function (say
devm_regulators_register), which would take a matches table and a
regulator desc table and do pretty much what I'm doing in this patch.

Is that what you had in mind ?

Best Regards,

Boris

-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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