linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: of: Hide wrong warning regarding suspend state configuration

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Message-ID: <20191216173547.GI4161@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:35:47 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Robert Karszniewicz <r.karszniewicz@...tec.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: of: Hide wrong warning regarding suspend
 state configuration

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 06:06:21PM +0100, Robert Karszniewicz wrote:
> A "No configuration" warning is falsely emitted in the case when the
> of-property regulator-always-on is set but regulator-(on|off)-in-suspend
> isn't set.
> This patch fixes the warning by explicitly setting always-on regulator's
> states to ENABLE_IN_SUSPEND.

Suspend states are basically completely separate to runtime states (and
we quite often have no software control over them) so it's not expected
that always-on will have an effect on suspend mode; the documentation
could use some cleanup here as it's mostly written from a runtime only
perspective.

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