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

[Alexandru Ardelean]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 17:53, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yeah, it doesn't make much difference if the refcount is 1 or higher.
For any refcount higher than 1, it's a serious unbalance of reg enable
+ disable.
And I agree that this may complicate reviews, as this would be one
extra subtlety [in the regulator framework] to account for.

Will send an RFC v2 with the short-hand.
I'm not trying to force anything with this, but looking at all the
repetitiveness of the devm_add_action_or_reset() hook to disable
simple regulators, I thought I'd [also] propose a variant or another.