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

[Shawn Guo]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:31:51PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2011 12:38 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:40:34AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> >>On Monday 24 October 2011 09:21 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:56:31PM +0200, Grant Likely wrote:
> >[...]
> >>>>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.
> >>
> >No, it's not the root of my problem.  Again, we are talking about
> >'Case 2', where multiple regulator devices are registered to
> >regulator core with regulator driver being probed once, where each
> >regulator node is taken as the child of 'regulators' node.  Having
> >device_node of 'regulators' attached to dev->of_node does not help
> >at all.  What we need is to have each child node attached to
> >regulator_dev->dev.of_node.
> 
> It certainly helps if dev->of_node has the 'regulators' node attached.
> The driver can very easily then do a for_each_child_of_node() to extract
> and register individual regulators passing an additional of_node param.
> 
Well, let's look at what Grant is asking for.  He is asking for that
each child node should be attached to regulator_dev->dev.of_node by
the time regulator_register() is called.  How can this be helping that?

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Regards,
Shawn