regulator: Provide optional dummy regulator for consumers

In order to ease transitions with drivers are boards start using regulators
provide an option to cause all regulator_get() calls to succeed, with a
dummy always on regulator being supplied where one has not been configured.
A warning is printed whenever the dummy regulator is used to aid system
development.

This regulator does not implement any regulator operations but will allow
simple consumers which only do enable() and disable() calls to run. It
is kept separate from the fixed voltage regulator to avoid Kconfig
confusion on the part of users when it is extended to allow boards to
explicitly use the dummy regulator to simplify cases where the majority
of supplies are from fixed regulators without software control.

This option is currently only effective for systems which do not specify
full constriants. If required an override could also be provided to allow
these systems to use the dummy regulator, though it is likely that
unconfigured supplies on such systems will lead to error due to
regulators being powered down more aggressively when not in use.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/dummy.h b/drivers/regulator/dummy.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3921c0e24249
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+++ b/drivers/regulator/dummy.h
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+/*
+ * dummy.h
+ *
+ * Copyright 2010 Wolfson Microelectronics PLC.
+ *
+ * Author: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This is useful for systems with mixed controllable and
+ * non-controllable regulators, as well as for allowing testing on
+ * systems with no controllable regulators.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _DUMMY_H
+#define _DUMMY_H
+
+struct regulator_dev;
+
+extern struct regulator_dev *dummy_regulator_rdev;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_REGULATOR_DUMMY
+void __init regulator_dummy_init(void);
+#else
+static inline void regulator_dummy_init(void) { }
+#endif
+
+#endif