Re: About [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Provide a dummy regulatorwith full constraints

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:09:02PM +0800, Wei Ni wrote:

> In the latest regulator framework, it default to provide dummy
> regulators with full constraints by your patch "regulator: core: Provide
> a dummy regulator with full constraints".

> I tried to use regulator_get() on lm90.c. If not set vcc-supply property
> in the dts file to assume the regulator is physically present and
> enabled, but it still can't get dummy regulator, just return -ENODEV.
> I traced it, the regulator_dev_lookup() will return -ENODEV, and at that
> time the has_full_constraints is still false, didn't be initialized in
> regulator_init_complete() yet, so it will not return dummy regulator,
> and will not return -EPROBE_DEFER either. This will cause the
> lm90_probe() failed.

> Could you take a look ?

Could you take a look at why we're getting -ENODEV please - this
indicates a problem with the device tree code since it should be what's
requesting probe deferral when it sees a link is present.

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