[PATCH v3 10/10] regulator: make the subsystem aware of shared GPIOs

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 01:41:10PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 12:20:46PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > >
> > > GPIOLIB is now aware of shared GPIOs and - for platforms where access to
> > > such pins is managed internally - we don't need to keep track of the
> > > enable count.
> > >
> > > Once all users in the kernel switch to using the new mechanism, we'll be
> > > able to drop the internal counting of users from the regulator code.
> >
> > I am wondering if you took into account the layering violation (or others
> > put it as "transferring of ownership") in the regulator core for the platform
> > based GPIO regulators? This popped up during the discussion of
> > https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20251024050537.92440-1-qiuwenbo@gnome.org/
> 
> I am aware of this weird ownership transfer in regulator but these
> changes don't affect it. The layering is still being violated though.
> 
> This should be fixed and I've looked into it but it's not trivial so
> it's another big rework for the future.

OK, thanks for clarifications!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko