On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:21:47PM +0200, Mike Frysinger wrote: > my gut reaction: smsc911x is working just fine without regulator > support for many people, so why do we suddenly need to make it a > requirement ? this is a fairly small amount of code, so adding a > smsc911x Kconfig symbol to control the regulator support seems like > overkill. only other option would be to change the patch to not make > missing regulators non-fatal. so i'd probably lean towards the latter > (and it sounds like you changed this with earlier versions).
The regulator API contains a series of generic facilities for stubbing itself out when not in use - there's no need for individual drivers to worry about this stuff, they should just rely on the framework. The main one at the minute is REGULATOR_DUMMY which does what you suggest and makes regulator_get() never fail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
