Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data
From: Shawn Guo <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-25 06:41:23
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From: Shawn Guo <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-25 06:41:23
Also in:
linux-arm-kernel, linux-omap, lkml
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:30:19AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
On Monday 24 October 2011 07:17 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:quoted
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:43:58PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:quoted
Case 2: One device for all regulators: DT nodes look something like this regulators { reg1: reg@1 { ... ... }; reg2: reg@2 { ... ... }; }; The regulator driver probes only one device and the dev->of_node points to the "regulators" node above.The mc13892 example I put in the reply to Grant demonstrates that for some case, dev->of_node is NULL (devices are created by mfd core).In that case should you not be first converting the mfd driver to register regulator devices using DT?
The mc13892 mfd driver calls mfd_add_devices() to add device for mc13892 regulator driver. Are you suggesting that I should hack mfd_add_devices() to have device_node of 'regulators' attached? The mfd is not a bus like i2c and spi, so I'm not sure this is the right thing to do.
Thats what we did for OMAP, and hence we always have the of_node populated when the regulator devices are probed. See this patch from Benoit on how thats done for twl devices.. http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=131489864814428&w=2
OMAP is "Case 1", and we are talking about "Case 2". -- Regards, Shawn