[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: only register regulator for first instance
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Mon Mar 19 18:48:59 EDT 2012
* Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> [120319 15:12]:
> On Monday 19 March 2012, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 07 March 2012, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > >> commit e4b0b2cbbb (ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: add required smsc911x
> > >> regulators) added regulators which are registered during
> > >> gpmc_smsc911x_init(). However, some platforms (OMAP3/Overo) have more
> > >> than one instance of the SMSC911x and result in attempting to register
> > >> the same regulator more than once which causes a panic().
> > >>
> > >> Fix this by only registering the regulator when the platform_data id
> > >> field is zero, indicating its the first instance.
> > >>
> > >> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter at ti.com>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>
> > >
> > > It seems that both Olof and I forgot to forward this one to Linus.
> > >
> > > If it's ok for you, I'll add it to the fixes branch for v3.4 now
> > > and mark it for backporting to v3.3-stable.
> >
> > A slightly different version of this is already in linux-next as commit
> > bb60424af517d6e6148505fb5ef256caa91b5b43.
> >
> > It was in your 'fixes' branch, and was merged by Olaf from Tony on 3/13:
> > Merge branch 'fix-smsc911x-regulator' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap into fixes
> >
>
> Yes, I know it's in linux-next because I found it in the fixes branch.
> That is the branch with stuff that should have gone into v3.3 :(
>
> Is the bb60424af version ok? If I add a stable at vger.kernel.org tag in
> there, it will obviously get a new changeset ID but I was not planning
> on changing the contents to the version from the mailing list in case
> that is different.
Let's just keep bb60424af. There are more patches needed to make
multiple smsc91x instances work, but we need to hear from people
with such boards first. Then those can be tagged for stable.
Regards,
Tony
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