next/master bisection: baseline.bootrr.intel-igb-probed on kontron-pitx-imx8m

[Saravana Kannan]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 10:54 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 10:48:04AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 10:26 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
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> > (though
> > > TBH given how entirely virtual this stuff us it seems odd that we'd be
> > > going for a bus).
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> > I'm going for a bus because class doesn't have a distinction between
> > "device has been added" and "device is ready if these things happen".
> > There's nothing to say that a "bus" has to be a real hardware bus.
>
> Sure, but then there's the push to stop using platform devices for
> virtual devices - this feels similar.

That's why we wouldn't be using the platform bus :) I was suggesting
changing regulator_class to regulator_bus and being able to delete
some of the regulator core code because device links would take care
of the same functionality. But this is just improving maintenance so
maybe I should focus more on the feature TODOs first :)

-Saravana