Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] regulator: Add of_regulator_bulk_get_all

Mark Brown
2022-11-15T11:17:32Z

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 10:42:50AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Well, it's not making this maintainer happy :/ If we know what
> > PHY is there why not just look up the set of supplies based on
> > the compatible of the PHY?

> It looks to me like this series fetches the regulators before the PHY
> is bound to the driver, so what you're proposing would mean that the
> core PHY code would need a table of all compatibles (which is pretty
> hard to do, they encode the vendor/device ID, not some descriptive
> name) and then a list of the regulator names. IMHO that doesn't scale.

Oh, PHYs have interesting enough drivers to dynamically load
here? The last time I was looking at MDIO stuff it was all
running from generic class devices but that was quite a while
ago.

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