linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: max77620: disable notifier events for FPS rails

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:07:07 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Zhang <markz@...dia.com>
Cc:     lgirdwood@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        Venkat Reddy Talla <vreddytalla@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: max77620: disable notifier events for FPS
 rails

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:11:17PM +0800, Mark Zhang wrote:

> +		/* there is no SW control for rails which are part of FPS
> +		 * set always no contraint to true to avoid regulator
> +		 * enable/disable notification
> +		 */
> +		if (pmic->reg_pdata[id].active_fps_src != MAX77620_FPS_SRC_NONE)
> +			rdev->constraints->always_on = true;

A driver should never modify the constraints, you should register a
different set of operations without an enable operation instead and let
the framework handle this.

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