Re: [PATCH V13 7/9] regulator: Add a regulator driver for the PM8008 PMIC

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Quoting Satya Priya Kakitapalli (Temp) (2022-05-30 03:33:47)
>
> On 5/28/2022 2:32 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Satya Priya Kakitapalli (Temp) (2022-05-27 01:24:19)
> >> On 5/21/2022 8:26 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>          +       }
> >>          +
> >>          +       pm8008_reg->dev = dev;
> >>          +
> >>          +       rc = of_property_read_string(dev->of_node, "regulator-name", &name);
> >>          +       if (rc)
> >>          +               return rc;
> >>          +
> >>          +       /* get the required regulator data */
> >>          +       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(reg_data); i++)
> >>          +               if (strstr(name, reg_data[i].name))
> >>
> >>      Why not find this via reg/address instead? It would save storing the
> >>      regulator name in the reg_data table.
> >>
> >>
> >> You mean match this using base address? then we should add base address in the
> >> reg_data table. We will need the name to be stored in reg_data table anyway for
> >> the pm8008_reg->rdesc.of_match
> > Why? Now that this driver binds to each node individually the usage of
> > of_match doesn't make any sense to me. Can you set 'struct
> > regulator_config::dev' instead and not set of_match?
>
>
> Currently we are setting regulator_config::dev as dev->parent i.e.,
> pm8008@8, because the parent supplies are present under pm8008@8, to get
> the regulators mapped correctly to the parent supplies we are using
> dev->parent.
>
> If we do not set of_match in regulator descriptor,
> regulator_of_get_init_node() would return NULL, causing init_data to be
> NULL during regulator_register and regulators are not getting probed.
> This can be resolved, if we get the init_data during pm8008_probe
> itself. I'll do that in the next version.
>

Ok then it seems ok to leave it as is. I suspect getting init data
during probe is more code vs. having the node name and the address in
the table.



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