Re: [PATCH net-next 11/12] net: pse-pd: Add support for event reporting using devm_regulator_irq_helper

Andrew Lunn
2024-10-03T12:56:32Z

> > https://docs.kernel.org/power/regulator/consumer.html#regulator-events
> >
> > Suggests these are internal events, using a notification chain. How
> > does user space get to know about such events?
>
> When events appears, _notifier_call_chain() is called which can generate netlink
> messages alongside the internal events:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11.1/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L4898

Ah, O.K.

But is this in the correct 'address space' for the want of a better
term. Everything else to do with PSE is in the networking domain of
netlink. ethtool is used to configure PSE. Shouldn't the notification
also close by to ethtool? When an interface changes state, there is a
notification sent. Maybe we want to piggyback on that?

Also, how do regulator events work in combination with network
namespaces? If you move the interface into a different network
namespace, do the regulator events get delivered to the root namespace
or the namespace the interface is in?

Andrew