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From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Move lp3971 regulator driver to subsys_initcall()
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:12:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101117081205.GB11542@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289962844.8233.2.camel@mola>

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:00:44AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> Regulators need to be available early in init in order to allow them
> to be available for consumers when requested.
> 
> Other regulator drivers are already moved to subsys_initcall(),
> looks like only lp3971 is missing.

My 2 cents: it is safer to create such patches with real HW when there is a
need (we deal with a similar situation in i2c). Janitorial might do more harm
than good. Another option might be to call the patch a RFC?

Regards,

   Wolfram

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17  3:00 [PATCH] regulator: Move lp3971 regulator driver to subsys_initcall() Axel Lin
2010-11-17  8:12 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2010-11-17  8:21   ` Axel Lin
2010-11-17 13:32   ` Mark Brown
2010-11-17 13:32 ` Mark Brown

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