Re: [PATCH 7/7] regulator: core: Remove loop disabling supplies in regulator_force_disable()

[Dmitry Osipenko]

On 20.11.2018 3:26, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> In regulator_force_disable() there was a strange loop that looked like:
> 
>   while (rdev->open_count--)
>     regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
> 
> I'm not totally sure what the goal was for this loop, but it seems
> wrong to me.  If anything I think maybe we should have been looping
> over our use_count, but even that might be a little strange.  For now
> let's just remove the code and we can add something back in if someone
> can explain what's expected.
> 
> Fixes: f8702f9e4aa7 ("regulator: core: Use ww_mutex for regulators locking")

Seems this "fixes" tag is incorrect, isn't it? The "ww_mutex" patch didn't touch this code.


> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/regulator/core.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> index 2eda87520832..963081aba17a 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> @@ -2738,10 +2738,6 @@ int regulator_force_disable(struct regulator *regulator)
>  
>  	regulator_unlock_dependent(rdev, &ww_ctx);
>  
> -	if (rdev->supply)
> -		while (rdev->open_count--)
> -			regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
> -
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_force_disable);
>