On 06/09/2016 12:29 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:44:18AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

quoted

Few drivers have a need of getting regulator supplies without knowing
their names:
1. The Simple Framebuffer driver works on setup provided by bootloader
   (outside of scope of kernel);
2. Generic power sequence driver may be attached to any device node.

Add a Device Tree helper for parsing "-supply" properties and returning
allocated bulk regulator consumers.

I'm still very concerned that this is just an invitation to people to
write half baked regulator consumers and half baked DTs to go along with
it, making it a standard API that doesn't have big red flags on it that
will flag up when "normal" drivers use it is not good.  Right now this
just looks like a standard API and people are going to just start using
it.  If we are going to do this perhaps we need a separate header or
something to help flag this up.

No problem, I can move it to a special header.  Actually, if you dislike
this as an API, it does not have to be in header at all.  I can just
duplicate the simplefb code.

In the case of power sequences I'd expect the sequences to perform
operations on named supplies - the core shouldn't know what the supplies
are but the thing specifying the sequence should.

Hm, so maybe passing names like:

usb3503@08 {
	reset-gpios = <&gpx3 5 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
	initial-mode = <1>;
	vdd-supply = <&buck8_reg>;
	foo-supply = <&buck9_reg>;

        power-sequence;
	power-sequence-supplies = "vdd", "foo";
};

but this is getting against initial idea of not adding any
power-sequence properties.

quoted

 drivers/regulator/of_regulator.c       | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/regulator/of_regulator.h | 13 +++++
 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+)

The external interface shouldn't be DT specific, the Intel people are
busy importing all of DT into ACPI so they'll doubtless want an ACPI
version.

Sure, I'll add it if this approach is acceptable.  At this moment this
is not necessary to show my idea so I prefer to avoid doing work which
might be discarded very fast by review.

Thanks for feedback!

Best regards,
Krzysztof