regulator: Support driver probe deferral

If we fail to locate a requested regulator return -EPROBE_DEFER. If drivers
pass this error code through to their caller (which they really should)
then this will ensure that the probe is retried later when further devices
become available.  In the unusual case where a driver doesn't want this
it can override the default behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Author: broonie

drivers/regulator/core.c

@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ static struct regulator *_regulator_get(struct device *dev, const char *id,
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev;
 	struct regulator_map *map;
-	struct regulator *regulator = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+	struct regulator *regulator = ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
 	const char *devname = NULL;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -2834,7 +2834,7 @@ struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
 
 		if (!r) {
 			dev_err(dev, "Failed to find supply %s\n", supply);
-			ret = -ENODEV;
+			ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
 			goto scrub;
 		}