[RFC PATCH] power: regulator: Avoid probing of regulators at pre-ram stage

[Quentin Schulz]

Hi Udit,

On 2/21/25 1:45 PM, Udit Kumar wrote:
> commit 51c4679d2f84 ("power: regulator: Trigger probe of regulators which are always-on or boot-on")
> allow always on and boot on regulators to be early probed.
> Due to this probing boot time increases.
> Since in hardware regulators are always on, so probing of such

According to the DT binding:

- regulator-always-on only means it should never be disabled, not that 
it's automatically enabled.

- regulator-boot-on means "It's expected that this regulator was left on 
by the bootloader." We're the bootloader so it's our duty to turn the 
regulator on.

So I'm not sure the justification is valid here.

I vaguely remember this patch was discussed a lot between Marek, Simon 
and possibly Caleb so let's see if they have something to say.

Cheers,
Quentin