[PATCH 1/2] regulator: fix handling of off_on_delay

Marco Felsch m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Thu Jan 29 04:06:53 PST 2026


On 26-01-29, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> In Linux the off_on_delay field in a regulator is described as:
> 
> > The guard time (in uS), before re-enabling a regulator
> 
> The primary user is the fixed regulator which puts the value of
> the "off-on-delay-us" property into it.
> 
> In barebox we put the off_on_delay into the enable_time_us field
> which is the delay we introduce when turning on a regulator. This
> is wrong and fixed in this commit.
> 
> The off_on_delay is defined as the time we should take before
> re-enabling a regulator. Linux does it the complicated way of
> remembering the time when it was last disabled and delays the
> re-enabling if necessary. We use the simple approach here of
> just waiting the off_on_delay time in the regulator disable path.
> 
> Fixes: 26a4c78917 ("regulator: add support for struct regulator_desc::off_on_delay")
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/core.c | 5 ++++-
>  include/regulator.h      | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> index cd07955894..8ca937e8bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> @@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ static int regulator_disable_rdev(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
>  
>  	rdev->enable_count--;
>  
> +	if (rdev->off_on_delay)
> +		udelay(rdev->off_on_delay);
> +
>  	return regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
>  }
>  
> @@ -309,7 +312,7 @@ int of_regulator_register(struct regulator_dev *rdev, struct device_node *node)
>  	node->dev = rdev->dev;
>  
>  	if (rdev->desc->off_on_delay)
> -		rdev->enable_time_us = rdev->desc->off_on_delay;

Nit: is is worth to remove the enable_time_us completely and
re-introduce it within the next commit?

Reviewed-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>

> +		rdev->off_on_delay = rdev->desc->off_on_delay;
>  
>  	if (rdev->desc->fixed_uV && rdev->desc->n_voltages == 1)
>  		rdev->min_uv = rdev->max_uv = rdev->desc->fixed_uV;
> diff --git a/include/regulator.h b/include/regulator.h
> index bca2d37d1a..09b4969c74 100644
> --- a/include/regulator.h
> +++ b/include/regulator.h
> @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ struct regulator_dev {
>  	struct device_node *node;
>  	int enable_count;
>  	int enable_time_us;
> +	unsigned int off_on_delay;
>  	int min_uv;
>  	int max_uv;
>  	struct list_head consumer_list;
> 
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 
> 
> 

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