On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 10:45:19AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> writes:

> > According to the device tree bindings the vcc-supply is optional.

This is nonsense unless the device can work without this supply.  Given
that the supply is called VCC that doesn't seem entirely likely.

> > +	nop->vcc = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "vcc");
> >  	if (IS_ERR(nop->vcc)) {
> >  		dev_dbg(dev, "Error getting vcc regulator: %ld\n",
> >  					PTR_ERR(nop->vcc));
> > -		if (needs_vcc)
> > -			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> > +		if (needs_vcc || PTR_ERR(nop->vcc) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +			return PTR_ERR(nop->vcc);

> does this look okay from a regulator API perspective?

That's how to use _get_optional() but it's really unusual that you
should be using _get_optional().