Re: [PATCH v2] regulator: fixed: support deferred probe for DT GPIOs

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:40:06AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/01/2012 12:23 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > ...this just seems rubbish, why aren't we just fixing the device
> > tree code and why are we doing this at the device tree level rather
> > than as a general gpiolib thing?

> It is being fixed in the DT code:

> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/468

Is that patch actually being applied (especially with Grant's free time
issues)?  I've still got the patch sitting in my inbox since it wasn't
clear what was going on.

> However, it seemed best to make the regulator code work both before
> and after that patch.

I'd be kind of inclined to just leave it broken to be honest rather than
having a huge comment and dodgy code.

> This issue can't be fixed only in gpio_request(); of_get_named_gpio()
> needs the GPIO driver to be probed/registered to even be able to parse
> the GPIO ID out of the DT; it makes a call into the GPIO driver as

Oh, ick.  :/

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