diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 4a27a46ec6e7..340db986b67f 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -5644,7 +5644,7 @@ static int __init regulator_init(void)
 /* init early to allow our consumers to complete system booting */
 core_initcall(regulator_init);
 
-static int __init regulator_late_cleanup(struct device *dev, void *data)
+static int regulator_late_cleanup(struct device *dev, void *data)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev = dev_to_rdev(dev);
 	const struct regulator_ops *ops = rdev->desc->ops;
@@ -5693,17 +5693,8 @@ static int __init regulator_late_cleanup(struct device *dev, void *data)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int __init regulator_init_complete(void)
+static void regulator_init_complete_work_function(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Since DT doesn't provide an idiomatic mechanism for
-	 * enabling full constraints and since it's much more natural
-	 * with DT to provide them just assume that a DT enabled
-	 * system has full constraints.
-	 */
-	if (of_have_populated_dt())
-		has_full_constraints = true;
-
 	/*
 	 * Regulators may had failed to resolve their input supplies
 	 * when were registered, either because the input supply was
@@ -5721,6 +5712,35 @@ static int __init regulator_init_complete(void)
 	 */
 	class_for_each_device(&regulator_class, NULL, NULL,
 			      regulator_late_cleanup);
+}
+
+static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(regulator_init_complete_work,
+			    regulator_init_complete_work_function);
+
+static int __init regulator_init_complete(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Since DT doesn't provide an idiomatic mechanism for
+	 * enabling full constraints and since it's much more natural
+	 * with DT to provide them just assume that a DT enabled
+	 * system has full constraints.
+	 */
+	if (of_have_populated_dt())
+		has_full_constraints = true;
+
+	/*
+	 * We punt completion for an arbitrary amount of time since
+	 * systems like distros will load many drivers from userspace
+	 * so consumers might not always be ready yet, this is
+	 * particularly an issue with laptops where this might bounce
+	 * the display off then on.  Ideally we'd get a notification
+	 * from userspace when this happens but we don't so just wait
+	 * a bit and hope we waited long enough.  It'd be better if
+	 * we'd only do this on systems that need it, and a kernel
+	 * command line option might be useful.
+	 */
+	schedule_delayed_work(&regulator_init_complete_work,
+			      msecs_to_jiffies(30000));
 
 	return 0;
 }