Re: [PATCH] regulator: palmas: set supply_name after registering the regulator

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 02:29:02PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 30.06.2021 um 14:13 schrieb Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> >> 	e.g. ldo3_reg depends on vdds_1v8_main supply
> >> 	vdds_1v8_main depends on smps7_reg supply
> >> 	smps7_reg depends on vsys_cobra supply
> >> 	vsys_cobra depends on nothing

> > I don't see any deadlock there?  Just a straightforward set of
> > dependencies.  Anything circular would clearly be a driver bug.

> I think it could be indirectly circular since ldo3_reg does not find smps3
> registered. But I have to run more tests with printk inserted.

Why would LDO3 have a dependency on SPMS3 given what's written above and
how would that be circular?

> > The driver should just register all the DCDCs before the LDOs, then
> > everything will sort itself out.

> Basically the driver code does it that way. But fails. Probing seems to defer
> until deferral limits (AFAIR there is a timer or counter in the probe deferral
> queue) an does not succeed.

Ah, I see - the issue is the intervening 1.8V regulator.  That's not a
circularity, that's the callout to a separate device in the middle of
the chain.  It's a super weird hardware design if the DT is accurate,
it's hard to see how it's not going to be hurting efficiency.  In any
case simplest thing would be to have separate MFD subdevices in Palmas
for the LDOs and DCDCs, that'll do the right thing.

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