Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] hwmon: (pmbus/core): Add regulator event support

[Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>]

On 4/6/23 16:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 11:00:02AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
>> ke 5. huhtik. 2023 klo 18.19 Mark Brown (broonie@kernel.org) kirjoitti:
>>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:18:32AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

>> Or, is it so that no "generic handling" of these errors is to be
>> expected? Eg, consumers who implement any handling must always be
>> targeted to a very specific system? My thinking has been that the
>> device sending the notification knows the severity of the problem and
>> - for example the REGULATOR_EVENT_REGULATION_OUT is only sent with
>> such severe problems that consumers can try disabling the regulator,
>> whereas the _WARN level notifications may not warrant such action. But
>> again, I don't think we have a specification for this - so this is
>> just my thinking - which may be off.
> 
> Do we actually have practical examples of systems sending warnings that
> aren't followed in very short order by more severe errors, notified or
> otherwise?

I asked about this from the hardware colleague(s) in Japan. This far 
they were not able to provide me a concrete information.

One potential example use-case they mentioned was "rejecting and 
re-doing a measurement if regulator warnings are flagged". This sounds 
(to me) like using a voltage from a regulator as some measurement 
reference or supply, with very strict warning limits. Still, as said, I 
did not have a concrete example if/where this is actually implemented - 
which means the answer to your question remains still "no".

Yours,
	-- Matti

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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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