linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: reorder initialization steps in regulator

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:41:40 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Caesar Wang <wxt@...k-chips.com>,
	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	Stephen Barber <smbarber@...omium.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: reorder initialization steps in
 regulator_register()

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:31:00PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> device_register() is calling ->get_voltage() as part of is sysfs attribute
> initialization process, and this functions might need to know the regulator
> constraints to return a valid value.

I've pushed this as a signed tag:

The following changes since commit f55532a0c0b8bb6148f4e07853b876ef73bc69ca:

  Linux 4.6-rc1 (2016-03-26 16:03:24 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator.git tags/regulator-sysfs-init-order

for you to fetch changes up to 469b640e4f4a28bdd50f0ac1d2b310907afb464c:

  regulator: reorder initialization steps in regulator_register() (2016-04-13 07:33:44 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
regulator: Pull the sysfs init after constraint setup

The sysfs attributes can indirectly use information from the constraints
so can trigger warnings with some systems.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Boris Brezillon (1):
      regulator: reorder initialization steps in regulator_register()

 drivers/regulator/core.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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