[PATCH 4/4] regulator: mc13783-regulator: correct the probing time.

Liam Girdwood lrg at slimlogic.co.uk
Tue Dec 15 09:50:01 EST 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 18:53 +0100, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> When the mc13783-regulator driver is built in kernel, probing it during
> the regulator subsystem initialisation result in a fault.
> 
> That is because regulator subsystem is planned to be initialised very early
> in the boot process, before the mfd subsystem initialisation.
> 
> The mc12783-regulator probing process need to access to the mc13783-core
> functionality to read/write mc13783 registers and so must be called after
> the mc13783-core driver initialisation.
> 
> The way to do this is to let the kernel probe the mc13783-regulator driver when 
> mc13783-core register his regulator subdevice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Panizzo <maramaopercheseimorto at gmail.com>

Applied to 2.6.33

Thanks

Liam




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