linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: allow drivers in modules to register fixed regulators

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:42:53 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Cc:     Dylan Reid <dgreid@...omium.org>,
        Jimmy Cheng-Yi Chiang <cychiang@...gle.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        "open list:VOLTAGE AND CURRENT REGULATOR FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: allow drivers in modules to register
 fixed regulators

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 06:49:08PM -0600, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> Sound machine drivers tend to live in modules. Sometimes such a machine
> driver needs to register a fixed regulator to provide to a codec.
> 
> Export regulator_register_always_on() such that this is possible.

Given that your driver is for a device you shouldn't be using this
function, anything you're creating should be parented off that device
and so you should be registering normally.

> Change-Id: I2906f96df278b5fa65d40d3a777bf6d3d91841d2

Please don't include noise like this in upstream submissions.

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