On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:29:40PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:24:11PM +0100, Carlo Caione wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:56:16AM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > > + regulators = of_find_node_by_name(np, "regulators");
> > > > + if (!regulators) {
> > > > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "regulators node not found\n");
> > > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > > + }
>
> > > The driver should be able to start up with no configuration provided at
> > > all except for the device being registered - the user won't be able to
> > > change anything but they will be able to read the current state of the
> > > hardware which can be useful for diagnostics.
>
> > If the device is DT enabled and no configuration is provided for
> > regulators, these are disabled according to:
>
> > http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.13.5/drivers/regulator/core.c#L3797
>
> > Am I missing something or do you have any pointer?
>
> With the above code the driver will return an error and never get as far
> as registering the regulator.
I agree, but if I register the regulators without having the constrains
defined in the DT, when regulator_init_complete() is
called, the regulators are disabled powering off the SoC (at least for
DCDC2 and DCDC3).
Thanks,
--
Carlo Caione
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