On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:58:46AM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote: > rdesc->name/regulator-name is optional according to standard regulator > binding doc. Use it conditionally to avoid a kernel NULL point crash. It is optional in the standard binding because it is used to override the name statically provided in the driver for the device. Since the anatop regulator is completely dynamic (there's no static list of regulators in the device) it's mandatory for anatop regulators - you should improve the error handling instead to detect a missing name.