Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: pwm-regulator: Revert "Add validity checks in continuous .get_voltage"

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 01:59:56PM +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> This reverts commit c92688cac239 ("regulator: pwm-regulator: Add validity
> checks in continuous .get_voltage").

And again...  please don't try to sneak changes past people :/

> The core, and in particular the machine_constraints_voltage() method,
> expects the regulator to report what the current setting is, even if that
> is outside the allowed range. The core will then bring the voltage into
> that range. It cannot do that if the regulator refuses to return its
> setting, and causes probe() to fail for a pwm-regulator when it has
> restrictions to the PWM range with messages like:
>   dsp7-pwm: failed to get the current voltage: -ENOTRECOVERABLE
>   pwm-regulator dsp7-supply-pwm: error -ENOTRECOVERABLE: Failed to register
>     regulator pwm-regulator
>   pwm-regulator dsp7-supply-pwm: probe with driver pwm-regulator failed
>     with error -131
> 
> Besides that, regulator_get_voltage() is not supposed to return any
> state information, as is mentioned in the API documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/regulator/pwm-regulator.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/pwm-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/pwm-regulator.c
> index f50530c77d92f..00fcf9a172b47 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/pwm-regulator.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/pwm-regulator.c
> @@ -158,9 +158,6 @@ static int pwm_regulator_get_voltage(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
>  	pwm_get_state(drvdata->pwm, &pstate);
>  
>  	voltage = pwm_get_relative_duty_cycle(&pstate, duty_unit);
> -	if (voltage < min(max_uV_duty, min_uV_duty) ||
> -	    voltage > max(max_uV_duty, min_uV_duty))
> -		return -ENOTRECOVERABLE;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The dutycycle for min_uV might be greater than the one for max_uV.
> ---
> base-commit: f66469d9905b39d2c260a15d7d6db450f4db67c1
> branch: linux-master-pwm-regulator
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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