Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: add regulator_is_dummy function

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:30:54PM +0100, Dr. Rainer Kaluscha wrote:

> The problem is that *only* a dummy regulator is available which
> refuses to do any regulation at all.
> So sdhci/mmc should better behave as no regulator was available at all.
> This may happen if e.g. in a precompiled kernel of some linux distro
> regulator support (including dummy) is enabled but the machine
> running that kernel doesn't have a known hardware regulator. This
> results in sdhci/mmc failing to enable the SD card reader though it
> would work well without regulator support in the kernel.

Production systems should not enable the dummy regulators, it's that
simple.  They're a crutch to get things booting but they're going to
cause problems in production.

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