Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] regulator: qcom_smd: Disable unused regulators

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>]

On 4.10.2023 16:17, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> The RPM firmware on Qualcomm platforms does not provide a way to check
> if a regulator is on during boot using the SMD interface. If the
> regulators are already on during boot and Linux does not make use of
> them they will currently stay enabled forever. The regulator core does
> not know these regulators are on and cannot clean them up together with
> the other unused regulators.
> 
> Fix this by setting the initial enable state to -EINVAL similar to
> qcom-rpmh-regulator.c. The regulator core will then also explicitly
> disable all unused regulators with unknown status.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan.gerhold@kernkonzept.com>
> ---
> NOTE: This has a slight potential of breaking boards that rely on having
> unused regulators permanently enabled (without regulator-always-on).
> However, this is always a mistake in the device tree so it's probably
> better to risk some breakage now, add the missing regulators and avoid
> this problem for all future boards.
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/qcom_smd-regulator.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/qcom_smd-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/qcom_smd-regulator.c
> index f53ada076252..0bbfba2e17ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/qcom_smd-regulator.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/qcom_smd-regulator.c
> @@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ static int rpm_reg_write_active(struct qcom_rpm_reg *vreg)
>  		reqlen++;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (vreg->uv_updated && vreg->is_enabled) {
> +	if (vreg->uv_updated && vreg->is_enabled > 0) {
At a quick glance, are there any states for this value, other
than 0 and 1? This is not the regulator_ops->is_enabled, but
qcom_rpm_reg->is_enabled.

Konrad