Re: [PATCH] ARM: shmobile: kzm9g: add REGULATOR settings to kzm9g_defconfig

[Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

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On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:58:15PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Mark Brown

> > If the power on defaults for the system weren't suitable for whatever is
> > being done you'd still have an issue even with the stubs but a lot of
> > the time the main effect of the API is to allow drivers to do additional
> > power optimisations.

> I may misunderstand the situation, but I believe the issue here is
> that the REGULATOR=n case works fine on the boards with smsc911x, but
> it stops "working" whenever REGULATOR=y is turned on and
> REGULATOR_DRIVER_FOOBAR=n. People probably enable regulators because
> they want to use the PMIC (that most likely isn't hooked up to the
> SMSC chip), but they get surprised to see the following SMSC error
> message:

Yes, of course, but then there's not really much else we can do here
except for ignore errors which isn't awesome.

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