Re: [PATCH] mmc: renesas_sdhi: add regulator dependency

[Wolfram Sang]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 11:46:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2025, at 10:46, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 09:20:52AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> >>  config MMC_SDHI
> >>  	tristate "Renesas SDHI SD/SDIO controller support"
> >> -	depends on SUPERH || ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST
> >> +	depends on SUPERH || (ARCH_RENESAS && RESET_CONTROLLER) || COMPILE_TEST
> >> +	depends on REGULATOR
> >
> > Hmm, this is too strict IMO. SuperH does not need REGULATOR.
> 
> I haven't tried building on sh, but I don't see why it wouldn't
> need the regulator dependency. The code that calls it is
> 
>         rcfg.of_node = of_get_child_by_name(dev->of_node, "vqmmc-regulator");
>         if (!of_device_is_available(rcfg.of_node)) {
>                 of_node_put(rcfg.of_node);
>                 rcfg.of_node = NULL;
>         }
> 
>         if (rcfg.of_node) {
>                 rcfg.driver_data = priv->host;
>                 rdev = devm_regulator_register(dev, &renesas_sdhi_vqmmc_regulator, &rcfg);
>         ...
> 
> which sounds like regulators are always needed when
> of_get_child_by_name() may return a non-NULL pointer, i.e.
> when CONFIG_OF is enabled.

rcfg.of_node will be NULLed when the regulator device is not available.
Which is only true for a few SoC variants. Most other SoCs use
'vmmc-supply' insteand of 'vqmmc-regulator'.

> If this is correct, maybe this is the best variant:
> 
> config MMC_SDHI
>   	tristate "Renesas SDHI SD/SDIO controller support"
> 	depends on SUPERH || ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST
>         depends on (REGULATOR && RESET_CONTROLLER) || !OF
> 
> CONFIG_ARCH_RENESAS is only set when CONFIG_OF is also set,
> so both subsystem dependencies are covered by that, while
> SUPERH doesn't currently enable OF, but will need the
> regulator and reset controller if that patch is ever merged.

Even given the above, I like this approach and think it still works.
But Biju is the SDHI regulator expert here.

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