Re: [PATCH 15/21] ASoC: wm8985: Move regulator acquisition to the bus probe

[Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 07:46:34PM +0900, Chancel Liu wrote:
> From: Chancel Liu <chancel.liu@nxp.com>
> 
> component->dev is the underlying i2c/spi device whose devres is only
> released on physical device removal, not on ASoC card unbind.  Getting
> the regulator supplies with devm_regulator_bulk_get(component->dev, ...)
> in the component probe therefore leaks the regulator references on every
> card bind/unbind cycle.
> 
> Move the devm_regulator_bulk_get() into a helper called from the i2c and
> spi probes so the supplies are tied to the physical device lifetime.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chancel Liu <chancel.liu@nxp.com>
> ---
> @@ -1176,6 +1178,12 @@ static int wm8985_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
> +	ret = wm8985_get_regulators(&spi->dev, wm8985);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		dev_err(&spi->dev, "Failed to request supplies: %d\n", ret);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> @@ -1212,6 +1220,12 @@ static int wm8985_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
> +	ret = wm8985_get_regulators(&i2c->dev, wm8985);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to request supplies: %d\n", ret);
> +		return ret;
> +	}

Probably slightly nicer to include the error message in the
helper rather than duplicating it in each probe.

Thanks,
Charles