[U-Boot] [PATCH] power: regulator: Return success on attempt to disable an always-on regulator

Faiz Abbas faiz_abbas at ti.com
Thu Dec 27 06:07:12 UTC 2018


Hi,

On 24/12/18 4:37 PM, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> commit 4f86a724e82c0 ("power: regulator: denied disable on always-on
> regulator") throws an error when requested to disable an always-on
> regulator. It is right that an always-on regulator should not be
> attempted to be disabled. But at the same time regulator framework
> should not return an error when such request is received. Instead
> it should just return success without attempting to disable the
> specified regulator. This is because the requesting driver will
> not have the idea if the regulator is always-on or not. The
> requesting driver will always try to enable/disable regulator as
> per the required flow. So it is upto regulator framework to not
> break such scenarios.
> 
> Fixes: 4f86a724e82c0 ("power: regulator: denied disable on always-on regulator")
> Reported-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com>

Reviewed-by: Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas at ti.com>

Thanks,
Faiz



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