Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Fix enable GPIO reference counting

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:41:03AM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> It is possible for _regulator_do_enable() to be called for an
> already-enabled rdev, like in regulator_suspend_finish().  If we were
> using an enable pin (rdev->ena_pin is set) then we'd end up
> incrementing the reference count in regulator_ena_gpio_ctrl() over and
> over again without a decrement.  That prevented the GPIO from going to
> the "off" state even after all users were disabled.
> 
> Fix this by avoiding the call to regulator_ena_gpio_ctrl() when it's
> not needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> Fixes: 967cfb18c0e3 ("regulator: core: manage enable GPIO list")
> ---
> FYI: this was developed and tested against a 3.14 kernel with
> backports; I've done basic boot testing against upstream and sanity
> checked the code but haven't done as extensive testing there.
> 
>  drivers/regulator/core.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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