Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] regulator: qcom-rpmh: readback voltage/bypass/mode/status set during bootup

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 01:40:05PM +0530, Kamal Wadhwa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 12:11:26AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It's certainly much less likely to be an issue.  There's some similar
> > issues around enables for exclusive regulatorss though, and I wouldn't
> > discount lower voltages being an issue (off the top of my head I've got
> > a feeling MMC needs to lower voltages to up clock rates but I could be
> > misremembering the use case).  Whole thing is a massive can of worms,
> > that's why it's not been addressed :/

> Do you think allowing this behaviour via a new regulator DT prop like
> `regulator-hold-on-boot` to allow per-regulator control.. rather then applying to
> all the regulators which are ON at boot.. may help address some of those concerns?

Possibly, though it's all feeling very implementation and not really DT.

> IMHO, from the design point of view it has to be either allowing all the requests
> OR allow only the up-ing of the voltage/mode till all clients are up, may be needed.

Like I say I'm not sure anything survives special cases well.

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