Re: [RFC 09/10] misc: hisi_hikey_usb: add support for Hikey 970

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:45:23 +0100
Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:38:48PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:23:03 +0100
> > Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> >   
> > > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 12:23:31PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > >   
> > > > +	regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(&pdev->dev, "hub-vdd");
> > > > +	if (IS_ERR(regulator)) {
> > > > +		if (PTR_ERR(regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> > > > +			dev_info(&pdev->dev,
> > > > +				 "waiting for hub-vdd-supply to be probed\n");
> > > > +			return PTR_ERR(regulator);
> > > > +		}
> > > > +
> > > > +		/* let it fall back to regulator dummy */
> > > > +		regulator = devm_regulator_get(&pdev->dev, "hub-vdd");
> > > > +		if (IS_ERR(regulator)) {
> > > > +			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> > > > +				"get hub-vdd-supply failed with error %ld\n",
> > > > +				PTR_ERR(regulator));
> > > > +			return PTR_ERR(regulator);
> > > > +		}
> > > > +	}    
> 
> > > This seems weird - if the supply is non-optional why is the code trying
> > > with devm_regulator_get_optional()?  Just use normal get directly.  
> 
> > That's meant to avoid problems with EPROBE_DEFER.  
> 
> Which problems and in what way does it avoid them?
> 
> > See, Hikey 970 need to initialize 4 drivers for the regulators:
> > SPMI core, SPMI bus controller, MFD and regulator. This can take
> > some time. So, a first call to *regulator_get() may return
> > EPROBE_DEFER, specially if both regulator drivers and USB HUB
> > are builtin.  
> 
> This is totally normal and works fine with normal regulator_get().

When I was porting the drm driver (first from OOT Kernel 4.9 to 4.19.5,
and then from 4.19.5 to 5.7), I'm pretty sure I got several of those
messages:

	"supply %s not found, using dummy regulator\n"

due to EPROBE_DEFER. I remember I ended checked the implementation
of the regulator code on that time. Yet, looking at the current 
implementation of _regulator_get():

        rdev = regulator_dev_lookup(dev, id);
        if (IS_ERR(rdev)) {
                ret = PTR_ERR(rdev);

I see that devm_regulator_get() will do the right thing with
EPROBE_DEFER.

So, I'll replace it at the driver. Thanks for the review!

Thanks,
Mauro