Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] regulator: tps65086: Add regulator driver for the TPS65086 PMIC

["Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>]

On 11/03/2015 10:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 09:57:46AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 10/31/2015 09:37 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 05:41:43PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>
>>>> +	struct regulator_desc desc;
>>>> +	unsigned int decay_reg;
>>>> +	unsigned int decay_mask;
>
>>> The decay_reg and decay_mask fields appear to be entirely write only,
>>> why are they present?
>
>> Not sure what you mean, they are written to differently for each regulator,
>> and read when setting the decay mode in _probe.
>
> Ugh, that's a bit hidden (mostly due to not using the callback).
>
>>>> +	ret = of_regulator_match(&pdev->dev, pdev->dev.of_node,
>>>> +				 tps65086_matches,
>>>> +				 ARRAY_SIZE(tps65086_matches));
>>>> +	if (ret < 0) {
>>>> +		dev_err(tps->dev, "Error parsing regulator init data\n");
>>>> +		return ret;
>>>> +	}
>
>>> Please match regulators using the fields in the regulator_desc rather
>>> than open coding.
>
>> I need to match to get the driver specific information for each regulator,
>> if I let regulator_register do it I never get a chance to process the match,
>> unless there is a callback or something I'm missing.
>
> There's a callback you are missing, of_parse_cb().
>

Ah, that will make things easier, I'll re-spin with the callback.