Hello Mark, On 03/21/2016 09:37 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 09:13:55AM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> On 03/21/2016 08:11 AM, Mark Brown wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:39:46PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > >>>> This patch makes the unresolved parent supplies to be looked up before the >>>> regulators late cleanup, so those with a child marked as always on will be >>>> enabled regardless if a driver attempted to get the child regulator or not. > >>> This doesn't make much sense to me as a fix - it feels like we're doing >>> a fragile hack. Surely it's better to do this as we register the >>> devices, that way we're also protected against any similar issues with > >> Sorry, not sure if I understood correctly. You mean to do it when the >> drivers register the regulators, so at regulator_register() ? > >> That's basically what was done before Bjorn's patch but that doesn't >> handle the case of out of order registration when having circular >> dependencies between regulators. > > We used to look for the parent at registration time, we didn't look for > the children. What you're trying to do here is look for the children; > we can do that at registration time. > Oh, now I understand what you meant. I thought you said to lookup the parents at registration time, not the childrens. Great, I'll take a look and give a try to your suggestion. Thanks a lot for your help. Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html