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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2010-04-03 17:37:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> | 2010-04-19 13:17:10 +0100 |
| commit | be1a50d4eba4cdb3ebf9d97a0a8693c153436775 (patch) | |
| tree | c4923c176186b9d1a596fd4274d05ddf8a5c2d49 /include/linux/regulator | |
| parent | 13bd8e4673d527a9e48f41956b11d391e7c2cfe0 (diff) | |
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regulator: Let drivers know when they use the stub API
Have the stub variant of regulator_get() return NULL, so that drivers
can (but still don't have to) handle this case specifically.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Jerome Oufella <jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/regulator')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/regulator/consumer.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h b/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h index 28c9fd020d39..ebd747265294 100644 --- a/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h +++ b/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h @@ -183,9 +183,13 @@ static inline struct regulator *__must_check regulator_get(struct device *dev, { /* Nothing except the stubbed out regulator API should be * looking at the value except to check if it is an error - * value so the actual return value doesn't matter. + * value. Drivers are free to handle NULL specifically by + * skipping all regulator API calls, but they don't have to. + * Drivers which don't, should make sure they properly handle + * corner cases of the API, such as regulator_get_voltage() + * returning 0. */ - return (struct regulator *)id; + return NULL; } static inline void regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator) { |
