On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 08:10:00PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 28 May 2014 23:08, Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Whatever - I don't think the particular code makes any practical > > difference. We would need to audit existing users who don't have a > > REGULATOR dependency for breakage though.
> Exactly what kind of drivers are we looking to fix here? These might > be the possible cases: > - We are checking 'regulator pointer' before calling and don't need to > handle anything there.. I'm not sure what you mean by this. > - None of above are true and drivers aren't checking return value of > regulator_set_voltage() > OR > They are checking it and failing when it failed.. > What do we want to do in these cases? Well, we would need to look at what the drivers were doing and figure out something sensible - it really depends why they're trying to set the regulator and what would happen if it doesn't work. For drivers that ignore the return value they won't be affected anyway.
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