On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 22:52, Linus Walleij <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Mark Brown
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The impact should be minimal since currently there are no mainline
>> systems which actually provide a vcore regulator so none need updating.
>
> Oh yes there are:
> drivers/mfd/db8500-prcmu.c
>
> This driver registers a number of voltage domain regulators,
> among those:
>
> static struct regulator_consumer_supply db8500_vape_consumers[] = {
>       (...)
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "sdi0"),
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "sdi1"),
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "sdi2"),
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "sdi3"),
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "sdi4"),
>        (...)
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "uart0"),
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "uart1"),
>        REGULATOR_SUPPLY("vcore", "uart2"),
>
> IIRC the machine will not boot (i.e. these drivers cannot even
> probe) without these regulators in place, so they get enabled by
> the AMBA bus code.

These vcore "regulators" do nothing but increment a variable which is
write-only in mainline, so the machine will boot and drivers will probe
fine with Mark's patch.

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