Re: [PATCH 2/3] regulator: s2mps11: Add set_suspend_disable for S2MPS14

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:42:22PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> However in that case the driver won't be able later to change that value
> back to "normal enable" (enable_mask). Consider such flow:
> 1. System is going to suspend.
> 2. Some regulator has "rstate->disabled" so set_suspend_disable() is
> called on it.
> 3. The "suspend" value is written to the device for given regulator and
> it is stored as "enable" value.
> 4. If regulator is enabled during here then the same "suspend" value
> will be written.
> 5. System is suspended.
> 6. After resuming regulator_suspend_finish() calls
> _regulator_do_enable() on the regulator... which will write the
> "suspend" value because the driver cannot differentiate between this
> enable and previous.

> I assume that this may not be a problem because:
> 1. Regulator will be still turned on (the "suspend" value tells PMIC to
> enable the regulator when SoC enables power).
> 2. The first disable of regulator may bring back "enable" value back to
> normal mode.

> Am I thinking here correctly? 

I'm not entirely sure I follow here.  Why would a disable reset the
enable value?  My understanding is that this is a bitfield with several
values, off, on always and on when they system is active.  The suspend
state is being tracked with a variable so I'm not sure why disabling
would reset it?

There is a bit of an issue if the regulator is disabled during runtime
but enabled in suspend but that's hard to resolve and I'm not sure that
it's a realistic issue.

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