Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: don't require a supply when supply_nameis specified

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 03:27:47PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:

> Regulator drivers may specify regulator_desc->supply_name which
> regulator_register() will use to find the supply node for a regulator.
> If no supply was specified in the device tree or the supply has yet
> to be registered regulator_register() will fail, deferring the probe
> of the regulator.  In the case where no supply node was specified in the
> device tree, there is no supply and it is pointless to try and find one
> later, so go ahead and add the regulator without the supply.

I'd call this a broken device tree to be honest, the regulators ought to
have a supply specified.  We should complain about it.  We probably
ought to be doing this though so I'll apply.

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