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From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:52:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] regulator: mc13783-regulator: correct the probing
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:53:35PM +0100, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> When the mc13783-regulator driver is built in kernel, probing it during
> the regulator subsystem initialisation result in a fault.
> 
> That is because regulator subsystem is planned to be initialised very early
> in the boot process, before the mfd subsystem initialisation.
> 
> The mc12783-regulator probing process need to access to the mc13783-core
> functionality to read/write mc13783 registers and so must be called after
> the mc13783-core driver initialisation.
> 
> The way to do this is to let the kernel probe the mc13783-regulator driver when 
> mc13783-core register his regulator subdevice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Panizzo <maramaopercheseimorto@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>