Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

From: Rajendra Nayak
Date: Tue Oct 25 2011 - 02:10:42 EST


On Monday 24 October 2011 09:21 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:56:31PM +0200, Grant Likely wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:51:40PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 03:59:50PM +0200, Grant Likely wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:40:26PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 8fe132d..29dcf90 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -2673,7 +2673,8 @@ struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
BLOCKING_INIT_NOTIFIER_HEAD(&rdev->notifier);

/* find device_node and attach it */
- rdev->dev.of_node = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, regulator_desc->name);
+ rdev->dev.of_node = of_find_node_by_name(dev->parent->of_node,
+ regulator_desc->name);

of_find_node_by_name() doesn't work that way. The first argument is a
starting point, but it doesn't restrict the search to children of a
node.

for_each_child_of_node() is what you want to use when iterating over
the children which unfortunately changes the structure of this
function.

The dev->parent->of_node is meant to point to node 'pmic: mc13892@0'.
And the intention here is not to iterate over the children, but to
start a search from a reasonable point rather than the top root node.

It is always better to attach the of_node at struct device
registration time instead of searching the tree in common code. The
of_node should already be assigned by the time regulator_register() is
called.

That's the problem we have. There is no 'struct dev' to attach of_node
for each regulator by the time regulator_register() is called, because
the 'struct dev' for each regulator is created inside
regulator_register() as wrapped by 'struct regulator_dev'.

The root of your problem seems to be that your pmic driver isn't
registering regulator devices from DT, and if it did, you wouldn't
need to do a search in dev->parent->of_node and instead the driver
would have the right dev->of_node populated.



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