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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: dt: tegra: harmony: add regulators
On 08/20/2012 12:14 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:08:45PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>
>> The patch in this thread adds all the required regulators to the
>> DT file. However, it should also remove the special case so the
>> regulators don't get registered twice, once from the board file
>> and once from DT. However, doing that would prevent regulators
>> getting registered at all, since v3.6-rc* don't have all the
>> required (TPS6586x) regulator (driver) patches to get the
>> regulators instantiated from DT. Everything will only work in
>> linux-next or sometime during the 3.7 merge window. Hence, git
>> bisect would be broken.
>
>> One solution to this is to bring the regulator tree into the
>> Tegra tree as a dependency, and then apply a patch which adds the
>> regulators to DT, and removes the special case from the board
>> file. I'm asking for your OK to do that.
>
> Why not just pull the patch in via the regulator tree? The idea
> of merging the entire regulator drivers branch into the Tegra tree
> doesn't seem awesome...

I think that'd end up causing some annoying conflicts with other
changes that also touch arch/arm/match-tegra/board-dt-tegra20.c.
Perhaps they're manageable; they probably aren't that bad, but it
seems better to avoid them.


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