Re: [PATCH] ASoC: cs42l42: add missed regulator_bulk_disable in remove and fix probe failure

[Chuhong Yuan]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 1:00 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:52:30AM +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
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> > I have a question that what if CONFIG_PM is not defined?
> > Since I have met runtime PM before in the patch
> > a31eda65ba21 ("net: fec: fix clock count mis-match").
> > I learned there that in some cases CONFIG_PM is not defined so runtime PM
> > cannot take effect.
> > Therefore, undo operations should still exist in remove functions.
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> There's also the case where runtime PM is there and the device is active
> at suspend - it's not that there isn't a problem, it's that we can't
> unconditionally do a disable because we don't know if there was a
> matching enable.  It'll need to be conditional on the runtime PM state.

How about adding a check like #ifndef CONFIG_PM?
I use this in an old version of the mentioned patch.
However, that is not accepted since it seems not symmetric with enable
in the probe.
But I don't find an explicit runtime PM call in the probe here so the
revision pattern of
("net: fec: fix clock count mis-match") seems not applicable.
So I think adding a check is acceptable here, at least it solves the problem.