linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: qcom: Rework to single platform device

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Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2015 23:52:09 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>
Cc:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: qcom: Rework to single platform device

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 02:32:35PM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 03 Mar 14:09 PST 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> > How does this work for the case where we may not want to add all the
> > regulators that a PMIC supports. I'm mostly thinking about the case
> > where we want to use the pm8xxx-regulator driver for a few regulators
> > and so we omit them from the DT for the RPM regulators.

> An empty or non-existing regulator of_node will still be registered, but
> without REGULATOR_CHANGE_STATUS nor REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE; so any
> operation on this regulator will fail with an -EPERM.

...but of course we'd never try any operations on it anyway as there
would be no consumers.

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