Re: [PATCH v6 05/15] regulator: Introduce tps68470-regulator driver

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 01:38:34AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > On 11/26/21 00:32, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 05:54:02PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > >> The TPS68470 PMIC provides Clocks, GPIOs and Regulators. At present in
> > >> the kernel the Regulators and Clocks are controlled by an OpRegion
> > >> driver designed to work with power control methods defined in ACPI, but

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> > >> + * (1) This regulator must have the same voltage as VIO if S_IO LDO is used to
> > >> + *     power a sensor/VCM which I2C is daisy chained behind the PMIC.
> > >> + * (2) If there is no I2C daisy chain it can be set freely.
> > >> + */

> > > Do we need safety checks for this ?

> > There really is no way to deal this condition needs to matches inside the driver,
> > this should be enforced by setting proper constraints on the 2 regulators where
> > the PMIC is used with a sensor I2C daisy chained behind it.

> Right. I tend to be cautious here, as incorrect settings can destroy the
> hardware. We should err on the side of too many safety checks rather
> than too few. I was thinking that the cio2-bridge driver could set a
> daisy-chaining flag, which could trigger additional checks here, but it
> wouldn't protect against someone experimenting to support a new device
> and setting different voltages without the daisy-chaining flag.

> My biggest worry is that someone with an unsupported machine may start
> by copying and pasting an existing configuration to try it out, and fry
> their hardware.

There's really nothing you can do that prevents this, especially in the
cut'n'paste scenario.  Overrides tend to get copied along with the rest
of the configuration, or checks hacked out if people think they're
getting in the way without realising what they're there for.

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