[PATCH] regulator: core: let dt properties override driver init_data

[Jerome Brunet]

This reverts commit cd7a38c40b231350a3cd0fd774f4e6bb68c4b411.

When submitting the change above, it was thought that the origin of the
init_data should be a clear choice, from the driver or from DT but not
both.

It turns out some devices, such as qcom-msm8974-lge-nexus5-hammerhead,
relied on the old behaviour to override the init_data provided by the
driver, making it some kind of default if none is provided by the platform.

Using the init_data provided by the driver when it is present broke these
devices so revert the change to fixup the situation and add a comment
to make things a bit more clear

Reported-by: Luca Weiss <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5857103.DvuYhMxLoT@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: cd7a38c40b23 ("regulator: core: do not silently ignore provided init_data")
Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/regulator/core.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 89578b91c4680c0c2d63eee46cbf31ded8549189..4ddf0efead682fd006657cdad1dc335f08f1da3e 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -5774,43 +5774,36 @@ regulator_register(struct device *dev,
 		goto clean;
 	}
 
-	if (config->init_data) {
-		/*
-		 * Providing of_match means the framework is expected to parse
-		 * DT to get the init_data. This would conflict with provided
-		 * init_data, if set. Warn if it happens.
-		 */
-		if (regulator_desc->of_match)
-			dev_warn(dev, "Using provided init data - OF match ignored\n");
+	/*
+	 * DT may override the config->init_data provided if the platform
+	 * needs to do so. If so, config->init_data is completely ignored.
+	 */
+	init_data = regulator_of_get_init_data(dev, regulator_desc, config,
+					       &rdev->dev.of_node);
 
+	/*
+	 * Sometimes not all resources are probed already so we need to take
+	 * that into account. This happens most the time if the ena_gpiod comes
+	 * from a gpio extender or something else.
+	 */
+	if (PTR_ERR(init_data) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+		ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+		goto clean;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * We need to keep track of any GPIO descriptor coming from the
+	 * device tree until we have handled it over to the core. If the
+	 * config that was passed in to this function DOES NOT contain
+	 * a descriptor, and the config after this call DOES contain
+	 * a descriptor, we definitely got one from parsing the device
+	 * tree.
+	 */
+	if (!cfg->ena_gpiod && config->ena_gpiod)
+		dangling_of_gpiod = true;
+	if (!init_data) {
 		init_data = config->init_data;
 		rdev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(config->of_node);
-
-	} else {
-		init_data = regulator_of_get_init_data(dev, regulator_desc,
-						       config,
-						       &rdev->dev.of_node);
-
-		/*
-		 * Sometimes not all resources are probed already so we need to
-		 * take that into account. This happens most the time if the
-		 * ena_gpiod comes from a gpio extender or something else.
-		 */
-		if (PTR_ERR(init_data) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
-			ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
-			goto clean;
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * We need to keep track of any GPIO descriptor coming from the
-		 * device tree until we have handled it over to the core. If the
-		 * config that was passed in to this function DOES NOT contain a
-		 * descriptor, and the config after this call DOES contain a
-		 * descriptor, we definitely got one from parsing the device
-		 * tree.
-		 */
-		if (!cfg->ena_gpiod && config->ena_gpiod)
-			dangling_of_gpiod = true;
 	}
 
 	ww_mutex_init(&rdev->mutex, &regulator_ww_class);

---
base-commit: 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b
change-id: 20250211-regulator-init-data-fixup-ef6b537bc77c

Best regards,
-- 
Jerome