Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: fixed: dt: support for input supply

From: Laxman Dewangan
Date: Wed Jul 04 2012 - 03:06:29 EST


On Wednesday 04 July 2012 12:47 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 03:37:25PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

+ if (vin_supply)
+ drvdata->desc.supply_name = "vin";
+
This isn't great both in terms of it being conditional and the fact that
it's only usable on DT systems as there's no non-DT way to do this. In
general unless we're working around some device tree issue (which should
be *very* rare) we shouldn't be adding any DT only stuff to generic
code, we need to be able to run Linux on non-DT systems.


In non-DT, the input supply is passed with the regulator_init_data through the fixed voltage config and it is filled in board files.
In one of discussion on input supply in my old patch, I understand that we should not provide the supply_regulator through the init_data as it is legacy and should provide with desc->supply_name.

so matching with this I have this change and put th supply regulator in desc->supply_name.

If we want to keep the same as DT and non-DT and not the extra care for this new policy then we can put the parsing code in of_get_fixed_voltage_config() and just fill the config->init_data->supply_regulator in this function.
The property checking for vin-supply can be done in this function only and set the config->init_data->supply_regulator = "vin" accordingly.

In this way there is no code for DT/Non-DT case.

Let me know your opinion.
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