Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:18:07 +0200 | From | Marco Felsch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] regulator: core: make regulator_register() EPROBE_DEFER aware |
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On 19-09-17 17:57, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:42 PM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de> wrote: > > > > Sometimes it can happen that the regulator_of_get_init_data() can't > > retrieve the config due to a not probed device the regulator depends on. > > Fix that by checking the return value of of_parse_cb() and return > > EPROBE_DEFER in such cases. > > Treating EPROBE_DEFER in a special way is usually wrong. > regulator_of_get_init_data() may fail for multiple reasons (no memory, > invalid DT, etc, etc). All of them should abort instantiating > regulator.
Those errors are handled but the behaviour of this funciton is to return NULL in such errors which is fine for the caller of this function. I only want to handle EPROBE_DEFER special..
Regards, Marco
> Thanks. > > -- > Dmitry >
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