linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/11] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8173-elm: Remove regulators from thermal node

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Message-ID: <CAGXv+5HEFEYhKFuxx+tozMxyJsey-0GHgHR2zMZOfNWYj25U0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:40:20 +0800
From: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>
To: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
Cc: linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, robh@...nel.org, krzk+dt@...nel.org, 
	conor+dt@...nel.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com, sjoerd@...labora.com, 
	hsinyi@...omium.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8173-elm: Remove regulators
 from thermal node

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com> wrote:
>
> The only reason to have a regulator in the thermal node is to keep
> the CPU cores up while reading temperatures, but this is incorrect
> because the AUXADC Thermal IP doesn't need any regulators to work,
> at all.
>
> Since the thermal node was inherited only for adding vregs, remove
> it entirely.
> This change is safe also because, among other things, the actual
> driver never used those regulators anyway.
>
> This also fixes a dtbs_check warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>

Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>