At boot time the regulator driver can be initialized before the gpio, in which case the call to of_get_named_gpio will return EPROBE_DEFER. This value is silently passed to regulator_register which will return success, although the gpio is not registered (regulator_ena_gpio_request not called) as the value passed is detected as invalid. The gpio_regulator_probe will therefore succeed win no gpio requested.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Mihalache <mihai.d.mihala...@intel.com> --- History: V1: - Fix comment from Mark Brown drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c index 464018d..9108c57 100644 --- a/drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ of_get_gpio_regulator_config(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np, of_property_read_u32(np, "startup-delay-us", &config->startup_delay); config->enable_gpio = of_get_named_gpio(np, "enable-gpio", 0); + if (IS_ERR_VALUE(config->enable_gpio)) + return ERR_PTR(config->enable_gpio); /* Fetch GPIOs. - optional property*/ ret = of_gpio_count(np); -- 2.1.4