Re: [PATCH v3] regulator: dt-bindings: qcom,rpmh: Indicate regulator-allow-set-load dependencies

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Wed Dec 28 2022 - 05:58:51 EST


On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:37:06AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 07/09/2022 22:49, Andrew Halaney wrote:
> > For RPMH regulators it doesn't make sense to indicate
> > regulator-allow-set-load without saying what modes you can switch to,
> > so be sure to indicate a dependency on regulator-allowed-modes.
> >
> > In general this is true for any regulators that are setting modes
> > instead of setting a load directly, for example RPMH regulators. A
> > counter example would be RPM based regulators, which set a load
> > change directly instead of a mode change. In the RPM case
> > regulator-allow-set-load alone is sufficient to describe the regulator
> > (the regulator can change its output current, here's the new load),
> > but in the RPMH case what valid operating modes exist must also be
> > stated to properly describe the regulator (the new load is this, what
> > is the optimum mode for this regulator with that load, let's change to
> > that mode now).
> >
> > With this in place devicetree validation can catch issues like this:
> >
> > /mnt/extrassd/git/linux-next/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8350-hdk.dtb: pm8350-rpmh-regulators: ldo5: 'regulator-allowed-modes' is a dependency of 'regulator-allow-set-load'
> > From schema: /mnt/extrassd/git/linux-next/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/qcom,rpmh-regulator.yaml
>
> Andrew,
>
> This patch was merged therefore we started seeing such warnings. Any
> plans to actually fix them?

Didn't Doug already do that?

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220829164952.2672848-1-dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

Johan