Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jul 2018 17:11:52 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Don't link consumers on the same device |
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:32:14PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This patch doesn't help, because wm8994 creates separate struct device for > each registered regulator, so you need to check the regulator parents too, > see my fixes below in the patch.
Ugh, right - I'd not looked at enough of the context to see what was being checked.
> I don't like such fixes for this specific case. It's not that uncommon > that a complex device provides various functionalities used by its > components, so it is not a bad design to use regulator provided by > its parent/grandparent/other ancestor device.
> Frankly, either the device_is_dependent() function should be exported and > used in regulator core or device_link_add() should have another flag: > DL_FLAG_SKIP_DEPENDANT.
Or it should just make the warning optional at the core level. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |