linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: core: always use enable

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Date:   Thu, 3 Jun 2021 11:27:41 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: core: always use enable_delay when
 enabling regulators

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 04:14:35PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 14:58, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:12:24AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > Some regulators (e.g. fixed) do not have .enable callback per se, but
> > > use supply regulator and enable_delay. Do not return early from
> > > _regulator_do_enable in such cases, so that enable_delay is properly
> > > handled.

> > This doesn't seem like the right fix - if we didn't actually do anything
> > then we don't need to add a delay.  We should only be doing this if some
> > parent regulator changed state.

> I have implemented this, but then it becomes too fragile. If the
> parent gets enabled for whatever reason just few us ago, the whole
> delay would be skipped.

This seems like a solvable problem, we can track what parents are doing
or teach parents about their children for example.

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