Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regulator: Allow consumer supplies to be set up with dev_name() | From | Liam Girdwood <> | Date | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:54:03 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 17:56 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > Follow the approach suggested by Russell King and implemented by him in > the clkdev API and allow consumer device supply mapings to be set up > using the dev_name() for the consumer instead of the struct device. > In order to avoid making existing machines instabuggy and creating merge > issues the use of struct device is still supported for the time being. >
We should probably mark this as deprecated in the docs.
> This resolves problems working with buses such as I2C which make the > struct device available late providing that the final device name is > known, which is the case for most embedded systems with fixed setups. > > Consumers must still use the struct device when calling regulator_get(). > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> > --- > For the avoidance of doubt this is most definately 2.6.32 material, not > 2.6.31. > > drivers/regulator/core.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- > include/linux/regulator/machine.h | 7 +++- > 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >
Applied.
Thanks
Liam
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