Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] regulator: fixed: forward under-voltage events

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:59:31AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:

> Configuration through the device tree and kernel defaults is preferable.
> For instance, having a default kernel governor that doesn’t require user
> space configuration aligns with the project’s objectives.

That's policy though...

> 
> > For the regulator itself we probably want a way to identify regulators
> > as being system critical so they start notifying.  It would be tempting
> > to just do that by default but that would likely cause some issues for
> > example with regulators for things like SD cards which are more likely
> > to get hardware problems that don't comprimise the entire system.  We
> > could do that with DT, either a property or some sort of runtime
> > consumer, but it might be better to have a control in sysfs that
> > userspace can turn on?  OTOH the ability do something about this depends
> > on specific hardware design...
> > 
> > I've copied in Sebastian since this sounds like the sort of thing that
> > power supplies might have some kind of handling for, or at least if we
> > need to add something we should make it so that the power supplies can
> > be joined up to it.  I do see temperature and capacity alerts in the
> > sysfs ABI for power supplies, but nothing for voltage.
> 
> Thank you for pointing towards the power supply framework. Given the hardware
> design of my project, I can envision mapping the following states and
> properties within this framework:

There's also hw_failure_emergency_poweroff() which looks like exactly
what you're trying to trigger here.

> Considering the above mapping, my initial step would be to create a simple
> regulator coupled (if regulator is still needed in this casr) with a Device
> Tree (DT) based power supply driver.  This setup would align with the existing
> power supply framework, with a notable extension being the system-wide
> notification for emergency shutdown upon under-voltage detection.

It sounds like this is actually a regulator regardless of if it also
appears via some other API.

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