[PATCH v2 07/10] regulator: Add driver for Maxim 77802 PMIC regulators

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Sat Jun 21 13:40:26 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:05:29PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 04:12 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >> I just looked at regulator_register() and saw that it does rdev->dev.parent =
> >> dev, so yes this has to be the MFD.

> I noticed that many drivers set config.dev = &pdev->dev. The original Chrome OS
> max77xxx driver and max77686 are two examples but others drivers do the same:

Not all drivers are DT drivers that bother specifying supplies.

> And also I see that mfd_add_device() calls
> devm_regulator_bulk_register_supply_alias(&pdev->dev,...) so I'm confused now
> about what the correct device should be...

Right, but to do that you need to set those aliases up - have you done
so?

> > Do the regulators manage to get their supplies?

> There are no current support in mainline for the devices that use the regulators
> in this PMIC so I can't tell you if consumers manage to get their supplies
> correctly (e.g: if regulator_dev_lookup succeeds).

That's not really relevant here - I'm asking if the regulators get their
own supplies rather than if anything uses them.
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