Re: [PATCH v1 4/7] iio: st_sensors: Call st_sensors_power_enable() from bus drivers

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sun Apr 18 2021 - 15:09:52 EST


On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 1:54 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:54:51 +0300
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In case we would initialize two IIO devices from one physical device,
> > we shouldn't have a clash on regulators. That's why move
> > st_sensors_power_enable() call from core to bus drivers.
>
> Why is this a problem? The two instances would double up and both get +
> enable + disable the regulators. However, that shouldn't matter as
> they are reference counted anyway.

> Perhaps an example? Even in patch 6 I can only see that it is wasteful
> to do it twice, rather than wrong as such.

Yep, now I also understand that I do it twice after this patch. But
lemme check next week this all

P.S. I have real hardware to test on. But my tests I guess are limited
to iio_info or so.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko