Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] regulator: Add a regulator driver for the PM8008 PMIC

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Thu Feb 10 2022 - 19:58:05 EST


On Tue 08 Feb 08:52 CST 2022, Satya Priya wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/qcom-pm8008-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/qcom-pm8008-regulator.c
[..]
> +static int pm8008_regulator_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + int id = pdev->id % PM8008_NUM_LDOS;

Why does this driver look completely different from all the other
Qualcomm regulator drivers that we already have, and why do you register
one platform_device per regulator?

The fundamental difference in design makes it hard to maintain and
you're wasting quite a bit of memory with the unnecessary
platfrom_device objects.

Regards,
Bjorn