linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: regulator disable supply fix

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Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:19:52 -0400
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Mattias Wallin <mattias.wallin@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: regulator disable supply fix

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:22:29PM +0100, Mattias Wallin wrote:
> This patch fixes a disable failure when regulator supply is used.
> A while loop in regulator disable checks for supply pointer != NULL
> but the pointer is not always updated, resulting in the while loop
> running too many times causing a disable failure.

> Signed-off-by: Mattias Wallin <mattias.wallin@...ricsson.com>

Hrm.  This does fix the problem which is needed so:

Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>

> ---
>  drivers/regulator/core.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> index f1d10c9..dc7d36e 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> @@ -1424,6 +1424,7 @@ int regulator_disable(struct regulator *regulator)
>  	/* decrease our supplies ref count and disable if required */
>  	while (supply_rdev != NULL) {
>  		rdev = supply_rdev;
> +		supply_rdev = NULL;
>  
>  		mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
>  		_regulator_disable(rdev, &supply_rdev);

but this does smell a bit like it ought to be in the _regulator_disable()
call rather than the caller.
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