[PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

[Shawn Guo]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:30:19AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Monday 24 October 2011 07:17 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:43:58PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> >>Case 2:
> >>One device for all regulators:
> >>
> >>DT nodes look something like this
> >>
> >>regulators {
> >>	reg1: reg at 1 {
> >>			...
> >>			...
> >>	};
> >>
> >>	reg2: reg at 2 {
> >>			...
> >>			...
> >>	};
> >>};
> >>
> >>The regulator driver probes only one device and the dev->of_node
> >>points to the "regulators" node above.
> >
> >The mc13892 example I put in the reply to Grant demonstrates that
> >for some case, dev->of_node is NULL (devices are created by mfd core).
> 
> In that case should you not be first converting the mfd driver to
> register regulator devices using DT?

The mc13892 mfd driver calls mfd_add_devices() to add device for
mc13892 regulator driver.  Are you suggesting that I should hack
mfd_add_devices() to have device_node of 'regulators' attached?
The mfd is not a bus like i2c and spi, so I'm not sure this is the
right thing to do.

> Thats what we did for OMAP, and hence we always have the of_node
> populated when the regulator devices are probed.
> See this patch from Benoit on how thats done for twl devices..
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=131489864814428&w=2
> 
OMAP is "Case 1", and we are talking about "Case 2".

-- 
Regards,
Shawn