Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: devres: disable regulator on release if refcount is 1

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 03:53:07PM +0300, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:

> This means that the last 'regulator_disable()' (on driver remove) becomes
> optional.
> If there are any unbalanced regulator_enable()/regulator_disable() calls,
> the 'enable_count' won't be touched and 'regulator_put()' will print a
> warning.

This doesn't seem like it's going to make reviewing and debugging
reference counting issues any easier, it seems even more of a concern
than a devm version TBH.  It's also not clear why if we were doing this
we'd restrict it to a single reference.

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