[PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: wm8994: Fix driver operation if loaded as modules
Charles Keepax
ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com
Thu Feb 27 14:52:43 CET 2020
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:08:01AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> WM8994 chip has built-in regulators, which might be used for chip
> operation. They are controlled by a separate wm8994-regulator driver,
> which should be loaded before this driver calls regulator_get(), because
> that driver also provides consumer-supply mapping for the them. If that
> driver is not yet loaded, regulator core substitute them with dummy
> regulator, what breaks chip operation, because the built-in regulators are
> never enabled. Fix this by annotating this driver with MODULE_SOFTDEP()
> "pre" dependency to "wm8994_regulator" module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com>
Be good to ensure patches at opensource.cirrus.com is CCed on
patches for the old Wolfson CODECs.
Thanks,
Charles
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