[PATCH v4 3/6] PCI: brcmstb: Add control of slot0 device voltage regulators

[Jim Quinlan]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:23 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:59:16PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:34 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:21:43PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
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> > > This is broken, the driver knows which supplies are expected, the device
> > > can't function without these supplies so the driver should just
> > > unconditionally request them like any other supply.
>
> > Some boards require the regulators, some do not.  So the driver is
>
> No, some boards have the supplies described in firmware and some do not.
True.
>
> > only  sure what the names may be if they are present.  If  I put these
> > names in my struct regulator_bulk_data array and do a
> > devm_regulator_bulk_get(), I will get the following for the boards
> > that do not need the regulators (e.g. the RPi SOC):
> >
> > [    6.823820] brcm-pcie xxx.pcie: supply vpcie12v-supply not found,
> > using dummy regulator
> > [    6.832265] brcm-pcie xxx.pcie: supply vpcie3v3-supply not found,
> > using dummy regulator
>
> Sure, those are just warnings.
>
> > IIRC you consider this a debug feature?  Be that as it may, these
> > lines will confuse our customers and I'd like that they not be printed
> > if possible.
>
> You can stop the warnings by updating your firmware to more completely
> describe the system - ideally all the supplies in the system would be
> described for future proofing.  Or if this is a custom software stack
> just delete whatever error checking and warnings you like.  The warnings
> are there in case we've not got something mapped properly (eg, if there
> were a typo in a property name) and things stop working, it's not great
> to just ignore errors.
A lot of this is really not under our control.
>
> > So I ask you to allow the code as is.  If you still insist, I will
> > change and resubmit.
>
> Remove it, conditional code like this is just as bad in this driver as
> it is in every other one.
I will remove this and resubmit.
Thanks,
Jim Quinlan
Broadcom STB