[PATCH 2/2] mmc: sdhci: Defer probe if regulator_get fails

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Tue Oct 23 13:07:39 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:29:41AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 01:57 AM, Lucas Stach wrote:

> > Does this work with boards where we don't have any MMC supplies? Or are
> > we just deferring the probe indefinitely there?

> > For boards that power MMC unconditionally, are we supposed to add dummy
> > regulators to make them work with this patchset?

> I believe that dummy (fixed) regulators are supposed to be provided in
> all cases where the platform doesn't actually have one. The fact that
> everything worked OK without them before this patch was most likely a
> mistake/accident.

That's the general idea; clearly there *are* supplies here, they're just
not software controlled supplies.
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