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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: tegra: TN7: relax some regulators
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:59:04 -0600
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On 06/19/2014 01:49 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Remove the regulator-always-on property from some regulators that do not
> need it. On recent kernels fixed regulators which supply is always on
> fail registration.

That sounds like a bug in the regulator core, which should be fixed there.

After all, we can fix *new* DTs to work around that behaviour change,
but old DTs are supposed to work with new kernels. Fixing this in the DT
doesn't help that.