From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>,
linux-iio <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why drivers don't depend on CONFIG_REGULATOR?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:01:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D8ECB9.1010503@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+TH9VkYTQOEaV4OX2HAZcpvXhgcP8e+Mp1m1otnX5v=OPbBCw@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/30/2014 11:51 AM, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I wasted a little bit of my time this morning understanding why the
> regulator I used in my device tree wasn't working, only to discover
> later that the regulator support was not enabled in my config.
>
> I think that all the drivers that use a regulator should depend on the
> CONFIG_REGULATOR.
>
> Is there a reason why any driver has "depends on REGULATOR" in their
> Kconfig entry?
>
> Thank you for your time!
Hi,
A lot of drivers work just fine without regulator support enabled. When
disabled the regulator API stubs itself out with dummy function that always
succeed.
- Lars
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-30 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-30 9:51 Why drivers don't depend on CONFIG_REGULATOR? Angelo Compagnucci
2014-07-30 13:01 ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2014-07-30 13:23 ` Angelo Compagnucci
2014-07-30 14:00 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
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