Hello Mark, On 26/05/2014 17:43, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:58:12PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote: >> Some regulators might take their power supply from other regulators defined >> by the same PMIC. >> >> Retry regulators registration until all regulators are registered or the >> last iteration didn't manage to register any new regulator (which means >> there's an external dependency missing and we can thus return >> EPROBE_DEFER). > This is going to apply to most PMICs - we should factor this out into > the core rather than implementing it individual drivers. It works > normally because typically the dependency is from DCDCs to LDOs and so > with common naming schemes alphabetic sorting saves us.
I'm not sure I get what you mean. AFAIU, we could factorize it by the mean of an helper function (say devm_regulators_register), which would take a matches table and a regulator desc table and do pretty much what I'm doing in this patch. Is that what you had in mind ? Best Regards, Boris -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
