Re: [PATCH 2/8] ARM: OMAP3: Initialize regulators for Beagle and Overo

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

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:48:34PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Eh, no, not really.  It's the same as the clock API in this regard - if
> > you want the struct device can be NULL and you can do a name based
> > lookup only but then you have to pass the name around in platform data
> > to support configurability.  If the clock API implements some other
> > solutions we'll probably follow them but I'm not aware of any.

> That's not quite what we're talking about.  With clkdev, you specify
> device name itself, rather than address-of-struct-device.  Using the
> device name gives you independence from the initialization or creation
> of the struct device (if indeed the struct device is created at all.)

Hrm, that does seem like a neat approach for avoiding the problems with
buses like I2C - I'll look into adding support for it, but at this point
it's not likely to be in time for the next merge window.  Thanks!