On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 07:13:42AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This backports the latest regulator drivers for kernels >= 3.4. > We enable the regulator only on kernels >= 3.4 given that > it relies on the new probe deferral mechanism which would > otherwise mean having to support drivers that do not probe There's no great reliance on deferred probes here... > correctly. Note that 3.2 had a base regulator implementation > but that was just stubs. I'm sorry, what on earth makes you say that? The regulator API has been usefully functional since it was merged. > I did look into a way to upgrade the core kernel regulator > but given that it relies on late_initcall() and core_initcall() > we can't update this part of the kernel. I even looked at > using ksplice for this but it seems ksplice can't be used to > update init sections on the vmlinux ELF. I also haven't much > updates to these routines since 3.4 except for 86f5fcfc. Again I'm not sure what you're talking about here?
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