Re: [PATCH v10 1/9] dt-bindings: regulator: Document MediaTek MT6316 PMIC Regulators

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 07:24:12PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 05:29:31PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 10:32:13AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> 
> > > +      regulator-allowed-modes:
> > > +        description: |
> > > +          Allowed Buck regulator operating modes allowed. Valid values below.
> 
> > > +        minItems: 1
> > > +        maxItems: 3
> > > +        items:
> > > +          enum: [ 0, 1, 2 ]
> 
> > This property has no default, and the property is not required. Is one
> > of these modes the default, or is there another mode beyond what's here
> > that is used if the property is absent? Or are all modes allowed with no
> > property?
> 
> The general approach the regulator API takes with everything is that if
> there is no explict configuration then it will simply not touch the
> hardware.  If nothing is configured then the hardware will be left in
> whatever state we found it in which could be anything as far as we know,
> it might vary depending on what was running before and what it was doing.

Okay, thanks for explaining Mark.

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