linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] regulator: tps65910: Allow supply references to the same chip

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Message-ID: <20170613204239.ans4j535st7kjee6@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:42:39 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, j-keerthy@...com,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] regulator: tps65910: Allow supply references to
 the same chip

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:22:17PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 06:46:28PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > at all.  Is this happening for you with current kernels, we have a few
> > mechanisms for deferring bindings of supplies which should help here.

> What mechanisms would that be? What I observed is that whenever
> a regulator's supply is not available but described in device-tree,
> the whole device's registration is deferred.

Mainly "Don't use regulators as supplies until the parent is bound",
there were some older ones IIRC.

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