linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] regulator: core: make regulator_register() EPROBE

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Message-ID: <CAKdAkRSi+d0AXwXaxc4wx+p2kAf=+_P8HZnq-sJAKmbwuuKH4Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:57:01 -0700
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     zhang.chunyan@...aro.org, Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] regulator: core: make regulator_register()
 EPROBE_DEFER aware

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:42 PM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Sometimes it can happen that the regulator_of_get_init_data() can't
> retrieve the config due to a not probed device the regulator depends on.
> Fix that by checking the return value of of_parse_cb() and return
> EPROBE_DEFER in such cases.

Treating EPROBE_DEFER in a special way is usually wrong.
regulator_of_get_init_data() may fail for multiple reasons (no memory,
invalid DT, etc, etc). All of them should abort instantiating
regulator.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry