Re: [RFC PATCH 2/7] regulator: Add devm helpers for get and enable

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 03:19:05PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:

> In order to tackle the issue the suggested API does not return handle to the
> regulators - it really just provides the "get'n enable, then forget"
> solution. The consumers who use the suggested API to "devm get'n enable"
> will have had time manually controlling the regulator afterwards as they
> will not get the handle. I would almost claim that the pattern we nowadays
> see (devm_get, enable, add_action_or_reset(disable())) is more error prone
> as users seem to in many case be storing the regulator handle w/o any
> comment about the automated disable at detach.

Hrm, right - that does help with that case.  However we do need a bulk 
version since that's an obvious problem case.

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