regulator: core: Don't err if allow-set-load but no allowed-modes
authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:22:57 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:58:33 +0000 (17:58 +0100)
commit57919f4a2ea47f75ac6117f7d99831f7fbd89bc7
treeec5ae94ae38bc606b95713fbb51301382d19ced8
parent55841199050d0c6c44eb7f24717816e6e372599f
regulator: core: Don't err if allow-set-load but no allowed-modes

Apparently the device trees of some boards have the property
"regulator-allow-set-load" for some of their regulators but then they
don't specify anything for "regulator-allowed-modes". That's not
really legit, but...

...before commit efb0cb50c427 ("regulator: qcom-rpmh: Implement
get_optimum_mode(), not set_load()") they used to get away with it, at
least on boards using RPMH regulators. That's because when a regulator
driver implements set_load() then the core doesn't look at
"regulator-allowed-modes" when trying to automatically adjust things
in response to the regulator's load. The core doesn't know what mode
we'll end up in, so how could it validate it?

Said another way: before commit efb0cb50c427 ("regulator: qcom-rpmh:
Implement get_optimum_mode(), not set_load()") some boards _were_
having the regulator mode adjusted despite listing no allowed
modes. After commit efb0cb50c427 ("regulator: qcom-rpmh: Implement
get_optimum_mode(), not set_load()") these same boards were now
getting an error returned when trying to use their regulators, since
simply enabling a regulator tries to update its load and that was
failing.

We don't really want to go back to the behavior from before commit
efb0cb50c427 ("regulator: qcom-rpmh: Implement get_optimum_mode(), not
set_load()"). Boards shouldn't have been changing modes if no allowed
modes were listed. However, the behavior after commit efb0cb50c427
("regulator: qcom-rpmh: Implement get_optimum_mode(), not set_load()")
isn't the best because now boards can't even turn their regulators on.

Let's choose to detect this case and return "no error" from
drms_uA_update(). The net-result will be _different_ behavior than we
had before commit efb0cb50c427 ("regulator: qcom-rpmh: Implement
get_optimum_mode(), not set_load()"), but this new behavior seems more
correct. If a board truly needed the mode switched then its device
tree should be updated to list the allowed modes.

Reported-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
Fixes: efb0cb50c427 ("regulator: qcom-rpmh: Implement get_optimum_mode(), not set_load()")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220824142229.RFT.v2.2.I6f77860e5cd98bf5c67208fa9edda4a08847c304@changeid
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
drivers/regulator/core.c