Re: [PATCH 0/7] Implement generic regulator constraints parsing for ACPI and OF

[Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>]

[+MarkR]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 04:06:34PM -0800, Furquan Shaikh wrote:
> Until now, the regulator framework assumed that regulators are being
> passed in using device tree(OF) only. However, with the recent change
> to add ACPI fixed regulator, it is necessary to have all the regulator
> init data and regulation constraints parsing performed for ACPI
> regulators as well. This is important to ensure that drivers can
> properly enable and disable the regulators.
> 
> Since regulator properties remain the same across OF and ACPI
> regulators, this series of patches provides common routine for
> obtaining regulation constraints from device tree and ACPI nodes. In
> order to support these common routines, certain device property
> functions had to be exported to make the node parsing logic generic
> across OF and ACPI.
> 
> Since the changes in this patch series are cross-system, it will
> require some amount of co-ordination to ensure that it can be applied
> at once.

The DT bindings you are enabling in ACPI through this patch series
clash with the ACPI specifications and its way of handling power
states for devices, which clearly goes against the DSD properties
rules as stated in:

Documentation/acpi/DSD-properties-rules.txt

If the current ACPI bindings (and I mean ACPI specifications not
_PRP0001) are not sufficient to allow firmware to control power
management (and the regulators control that is part of it) through
standard ACPI methods we should request changes to the specifications,
enabling regulator control with ACPI through DT bindings is just a
recipe for disaster.

What's the best course of action should and can be debated, in the
interim on the series:

NAKed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>

> Dmitry Torokhov (3):
>   ACPI / property: have acpi_get_next_subnode take fwnode_handle
>   device property: introduce fwnode_for_each_child()
>   device property: introduce fwnode_get_named_child_node()
> 
> Furquan Shaikh (4):
>   drivers/regulator: Rename of_map_mode to map_mode in regulator desc
>   device property: Export dev_fwnode
>   drivers/gpio: Add and export gpiod_lookup[_index]
>   drivers/regulator: Initialize regulator init data for ACPI regulators
> 
>  drivers/acpi/property.c                 |   8 +-
>  drivers/base/property.c                 |  61 ++++++++---
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c                  |  75 ++++++++++---
>  drivers/regulator/Makefile              |   2 +-
>  drivers/regulator/fixed.c               | 100 ++++++-----------
>  drivers/regulator/internal.h            |   3 +
>  drivers/regulator/max77802-regulator.c  |  12 +-
>  drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c        | 156 +-------------------------
>  drivers/regulator/qcom_spmi-regulator.c |   2 +-
>  drivers/regulator/regulator_props.c     | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/regulator/twl-regulator.c       |   6 +-
>  drivers/regulator/twl6030-regulator.c   |   2 +-
>  include/linux/acpi.h                    |   5 +-
>  include/linux/fwnode.h                  |  10 ++
>  include/linux/gpio/consumer.h           |  21 ++++
>  include/linux/property.h                |   1 +
>  include/linux/regulator/driver.h        |   5 +-
>  17 files changed, 386 insertions(+), 272 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/regulator/regulator_props.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog
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