Re: Question on "regulator" platform device

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:41:00AM -0800, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Guys:

As ever please remember to CC maintainers so they see your mails,
especially if you're going to mail a different list to the one usually
used for development of the subsystem you're working on.

> The text in Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt describes how to
> place regulator_init_data and regulator_consumer_supply structures
> into the .dev.platform_data field of a platform_device structure.  The
> platform_device.name field equals "regulator".

> Trouble is, I can't find anywhere in the drivers/regulator code that
> registers a platform_driver named "regulator".  Am I just going blind?

This is just an example of how to supply platform data to a device.
You need to pass things into the driver for whatever regulator you are
using.  There are quite a few systems in the tree using regulators
which you can use for reference...
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