Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:55:38 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] regulator: act8865: set correct number of regulators in pdata |
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:46:43AM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 05:07:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote: > > > When platform data is populated from DT all the regulators are > > > instantiated and the value of num_regulators should be the number of > > > all available regulators rather than the number of matched ones.
> > Could you go into more detail on your logic on this one please? The > > platform data (and DT configuration) for regulators should be completely > > optional.
> pdata contains an array of struct act8865_regulator_data and a > num_regulators field which should hold the number of elements in the > array, if I understand correctly.
> So in the current code, when populating platform data from DT, there > is a mismatch between the number of elements that are put in the array > (ARRAY_SIZE(act8865_matches)) and the value of num_regulators, which > is set to the number of regulators found in the DT.
> In case of missing regulator nodes in DT, pdata->regulators will be > populated with all the regulators but their init_data will be NULL.
OK, so that was slightly unclear but I see what you're saying now - the issue isn't that there will be fewer valid elements in the array, it's that the array is sparsely populated. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |