The patch titled regulator: suggest use of datasheet supply or pin names for consumers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is regulator-suggest-use-of-datasheet-supply-or-pin-names-for-consumers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: regulator: suggest use of datasheet supply or pin names for consumers From: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Update the documentation to suggest the use of datasheet names for the supplies requested by regulator consumers. Doing this makes it easier to tie the design for a given platform up with the requirements of the driver for a consumer. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/regulator/core.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/regulator/core.c~regulator-suggest-use-of-datasheet-supply-or-pin-names-for-consumers drivers/regulator/core.c --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c~regulator-suggest-use-of-datasheet-supply-or-pin-names-for-consumers +++ a/drivers/regulator/core.c @@ -925,9 +925,12 @@ overflow_err: * @id: Supply name or regulator ID. * * Returns a struct regulator corresponding to the regulator producer, - * or IS_ERR() condition containing errno. Use of supply names - * configured via regulator_set_device_supply() is strongly - * encouraged. + * or IS_ERR() condition containing errno. + * + * Use of supply names configured via regulator_set_device_supply() is + * strongly encouraged. It is recommended that the supply name used + * should match the name used for the supply and/or the relevant + * device pins in the datasheet. */ struct regulator *regulator_get(struct device *dev, const char *id) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch regulator-suggest-use-of-datasheet-supply-or-pin-names-for-consumers.patch rtc-convert-wm8350-use-new-alarm-and-update-operations.patch rtc-wm8350-retries-will-reach-1.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html