Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:21:43 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] regulator: core: Resolve supply earlier |
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 05:09:59PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote: > On 19/04/16 16:40, Mark Brown wrote:
> > This is *really* weird. Why would we need the list lock to do a > > device_register()?
> So I did not think that we would want someone to be able to > look-up the regulator via of_find_regulator_by_node() until > it had been registered successfully. In fact I believe that > not locking around device_register() was causing some crashes > when I was testing.
What that's saying to me is that the device_register() is too early and we shouldn't be registering the device until we're ready for it to be used. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |