Re: [PATCH] regulator: ab8500-ext: Don't register withoutinitialisation data

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed May 22 2013 - 13:46:03 EST


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 05:53:53PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> > running or not, the worst that should happen is that the state can be
> > read back. I'd therefore expect the fix here to be in the board side
> > code that enables the regulators.

> It's both.

> From the platform side we have stopped passing the external regulator
> driver's constraints for Snowball:

> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/22/280

> All I've done here is stop the ext driver from crapping out with the
> misleading error "Configuration error: size mismatch", because a)
> it's not an error, it's expected and b) It's not a size mismatch,
> instead we have chosen to keep the constraints back in the Snowball
> (and u8505) case.

OK, so the regulator driver is buggy and insisting on having constraints
passed in for every regulator then?

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