Aw: Re: Re: BUG: devm_regulator_get returns EPROBE_DEFER (5.3-rc5..next-20190822) for bpi-r2/mt7623/mt7530

[Frank Wunderlich]

> Gesendet: Freitag, 23. August 2019 um 12:04 Uhr
> Von: "Mark Brown" <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Can you run a git bisect to try to identify the commit that
> caused things to fail?

i have not figured out, how to rebase linux-next on my current (working) codebase :) (failes on file untouched by me at Patch 3/7000+)

> Look to see if there is a device driver bound to that device, or
> check if the parent regulator is visible in /sys/class/regulators.
> You'll also see a mesage printed out for each regulator as it
> instantiates in the boot logs, you can check there too.

in working version i only get this message in dmesg which
looks like a device-binding:

mt6323-regulator mt6323-regulator: Chip ID = 0x2023

this is my regulator: mt6323_vpa_reg

defined in arch/arm/boot/dts/mt6323.dtsi

&pwrap {
	pmic: mt6323 {
	  mt6323regulator: mt6323regulator{
		compatible = "mediatek,mt6323-regulator";
		mt6323_vpa_reg: buck_vpa{
			regulator-name = "vpa";
			regulator-min-microvolt = < 500000>;
			regulator-max-microvolt = <3650000>;
		};
	  };
	};
};

parent regulator is then
mt6323regulator: mt6323regulator

which is the one i see i dmesg.

in working version i see the regulator in sys-fs

cat /sys/class/regulator/regulator.*/name | grep vpa
vpa

-------------------------------------------------------------------

so, now to the non-working regulator:

dmesg do not have such entry ;(

regulators-list in /sys/class only containing the dummy and some fixed regulators

cat /sys/class/regulator/regulator.*/name
regulator-dummy
fixed-1.8V
fixed-3.3V
fixed-5V

in arch/arm/boot/dts/mt*.dts and Makefile there is no change between
working and non-working version.
in drivers/regulators only the 2 files where i had reverted the
changes manually without success.

where can be the cause for no more binding main-regulator?

are these strange messages related to this problem?

mtk-cpufreq mtk-cpufreq: failed to initialize dvfs info for cpu0

another strange line is this:

mt6397 1000d000.pwrap:mt6323: unsupported chip: 0x0

so the pwrap above regulator is affected too

and here are many changes in 2 files...

git diff --name-only non-working..working -- drivers/mfd/mt6397-*
drivers/mfd/mt6397-core.c
drivers/mfd/mt6397-irq.c

which brings me to this 2 commits:

a4872e80ce7d mfd: mt6397: Extract IRQ related code from core driver
708cb5cc3fde mfd: mt6397: Rename macros to something more readable

after reverting those 2 regulators are working again.
Adding both Signed-off-People to CC to keep them informed that a fix is needed

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i currently write in webmailer, where i cannot set this setting,
i try to add manual linebreak in long lines, ok?

regards Frank