Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] regulator: Add devm helpers for get and enable

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Oct 10 2022 - 02:13:16 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 07:13:23AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 10/6/22 19:17, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:36:52PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > > A few regulator consumer drivers seem to be just getting a regulator,
> > > enabling it and registering a devm-action to disable the regulator at
> > > the driver detach and then forget about it.
> > >
> > > We can simplify this a bit by adding a devm-helper for this pattern.
> > > Add devm_regulator_get_enable() and devm_regulator_get_enable_optional()

...

> > > (cherry picked from commit b6058e052b842a19c8bb639798d8692cd0e7589f)
> >
> > Not sure:
> > - why this is in the commit message
> > - what it points to, since
> > $ git show b6058e052b842a19c8bb639798d8692cd0e7589f
> > fatal: bad object b6058e052b842a19c8bb639798d8692cd0e7589f
> >
> > > Already in Mark's regulator tree. Not to be merged. Included just for
> > > the sake of the completeness. Will be dropped when series is rebased on
> > > top of the 6.1-rc1
> >
> > Ah, I see, but does it mean the commit has been rebased or you used wrong SHA?
>
> I did probably cherry-pick this from my local development branch and not
> from Mark's tree. Sorry for the confusion. I thought people would ignore
> these first two patches when reviewing as was requested in cover-letter.

The solution as pointed out by LKP and which will removes the need of the noise
in email and a lot of confusions is to use --base parameter to the patch(es).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko