Re: [PATCH v10 4/8] drm/ingenic: Add dw-hdmi driver for jz4780

[Paul Cercueil]

Hi Nikolaus, Mark,

Le mer., déc. 1 2021 at 14:51:51 +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller 
<hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> >  Am 01.12.2021 um 14:39 schrieb Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >  On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 01:02:45PM +0000, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > >  Le mar., nov. 30 2021 at 22:26:37 +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller
> >
> > > >  +	regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(&pdev->dev, "hdmi-5v");
> > > >  +	if (IS_ERR(regulator)) {
> > > >  +		ret = PTR_ERR(regulator);
> >
> >  Why is this using _optional()?  This should only be done when the 
> > supply
> >  can be physically absent
>
> There can be +5V for HDMI but without a regulator that is visible to 
> or controllable
> by the driver.

There is always a power supply though. Either a controllable one 
(through e.g. a GPIO), or it's just connected to the mains +5V; the pin 
is never left floating. In the second case, in DTS the "hdmi-5v" would 
be connected to some 5v regulator, even if it's just a dummy VCC-5V 
regulator. So Mark has a point.

> So hdmi-5v can be simply missing in DTS in which case the driver does 
> not need to
> care about. The driver just can't turn it on or off.

Please make it mandatory in DTS then, and use devm_regulator_get() in 
the driver.

Cheers,
-Paul

> >  (in which case I'd expect to see special
> >  handling).
>
> The special case is to not enable/disable the regulator if it does 
> not exist
> and assume that there is hardware providing it otherwise (the driver 
> can't know
> that except by using get_optional). This is done by the code below
>
> > > >  +	if (IS_ERR(regulator)) {
>
> ...
>
> >  +	if (!regulator)
> >  +		return 0;
> >
> >  +	ret = regulator_enable(regulator);
>
> ...
>
> BR and thanks,
> Nikolaus