Re: [PATCH 5/7] backports: add support for voltage / current regulator drivers

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 17:26 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:01:18PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 07:13 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > > This backports the latest regulator drivers for kernels >= 3.4.
> > > We enable the regulator only on kernels >= 3.4 given that
> > > it relies on the new probe deferral mechanism which would
> > > otherwise mean having to support drivers that do not probe
> > > correctly. Note that 3.2 had a base regulator implementation
> > > but that was just stubs.
> 
> > Applied.
> 
> Please let's at least discuss the issues here, I'm not sure what this is
> supposed to do but the analysis of the subsystem didn't seem complete.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. For some reason (media drivers
related?) Luis decided that it was worth including this in the backports
project (see http://backports.wiki.kernel.org) and I am currently
maintaining the git tree for that, at least while I was doing some
refactoring.

I do notice that it doesn't quite work, there are a lot of unresolved
symbols :)

If you think you'd be impacted by this because users demand support from
you for the backport or whatever I can revert this (or probably just
remove it from the copy list for now.) I don't really have an opinion on
it, I'm doing this because I'm interested in one specific wireless
driver.

johannes