Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: assert that dummy regulator has been probed before using it

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 07:22:24PM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. März 2025, 18:23:02 CET schrieb Mark Brown:

> > > +		BUG_ON(!r);

> > This doesn't actually help anything

> My idea was to help identifying the problem (if it is reintroduced again 
> later).

> > I'd expect this to trigger probe deferral.

> I can check for this tomorrow.  But is it worth to use deferred probing
> for a shared "NOP" driver which doesn't access any hardware?  Or would this 
> only introduce overhead for nothing?

My concern is that if something goes wrong in production then we've just
escallated the problem, given that there's a clear error handling
mechanism we could use we should take advantage of that rather than
doing something destructive.

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