Hi Andrew, On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 05:39:39PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:53:40PM +0200, meg...@megous.com wrote: > > From: Ondrej Jirman <meg...@megous.com> > > > > Use devm_regulator_get instead of devm_regulator_get_optional and rely > > on dummy supply. This avoids NULL checks before regulator_enable/disable > > calls. > > Hi Ondrej > > What do you mean by a dummy supply? I'm just trying to make sure you > are not breaking backwards compatibility.
Sorry, I mean dummy regulator. See: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L1874 On systems that use DT (i.e. have_full_constraints() == true), when the regulator is not found (ENODEV, not specified in DT), regulator_get will return a fake dummy regulator that can be enabled/disabled, but doesn't do anything real. This can be used to avoid NULL checks and make the code simpler. regards, Ondrej > Thanks > Andrew
