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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add option to prevent disabling unused regulators
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:33:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y2kh53h.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1690b26-9004-4e5e-aa14-c61f679add12@sirena.org.uk>

Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:26:52AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>
>> On the other note, I'm wondering if we could use sync_state() for handling the
>> regulator_init_complete() work. This would ensure that the regulators are only
>> disabled when all the consumers are probed.
>
> That assumes that everything defined in the DT both has a driver and has
> the driver available for the currently running kernel neither of which
> is a good assumption.

Agreed. I believe the current logic of disabling all regulators using a
workqueue is the correct thing to do.

The only better option I think is to make user-space notify the kernel
that it won't load kernel modules anymore. But the delayed work would
sill be needed, since the kernel can't make an assumption on whether
user-space will notify of this or not.

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-02  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-28 10:24 [PATCH] regulator: core: Add option to prevent disabling unused regulators Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-10-28 16:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-10-30 14:53 ` Brian Masney
2023-11-01  4:56 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2023-11-01 13:09   ` Mark Brown
2023-11-02  9:33     ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2023-11-13 19:40 ` Mark Brown

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