Re: [PATCH 8/9] regulator: helper to extract regulator node based on supply name

Mark Brown
2011-09-28T12:26:30Z

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:09:30AM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> On 9/27/2011 8:59 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >I'm not sure how this should work in a device tree world, I'd *hope*
> >we'd get a device tree node for the CPU and could then just make this a
> >regular consumer thing but then the cpufreq drivers would need to be
> >updated to make use of it. The only reason we allow null devices right
> >now is the fact that cpufreq doesn't have a struct device it can use.

> That's why we do have a MPU node in OMAP dts, in order to build an
> omap_device that will be mainly used for the DVFS on the MPU.

> And even before DT migration, we used to build statically some
> omap_device to represent the various processors in the system (MPU,
> DSP, CortexM3...).

Yeah, but that's very OMAP specific - we don't have that in general (in
fact it's the only Linux platform I'm aware of that has a device for the
CPU).