Re: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: qcom: Rework to single platform device

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 18:52:39 EST


On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 02:32:35PM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 03 Mar 14:09 PST 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> > How does this work for the case where we may not want to add all the
> > regulators that a PMIC supports. I'm mostly thinking about the case
> > where we want to use the pm8xxx-regulator driver for a few regulators
> > and so we omit them from the DT for the RPM regulators.

> An empty or non-existing regulator of_node will still be registered, but
> without REGULATOR_CHANGE_STATUS nor REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE; so any
> operation on this regulator will fail with an -EPERM.

...but of course we'd never try any operations on it anyway as there
would be no consumers.

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