From: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: tsl2772: Use device-managed API
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:02:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANhBUQ0eBs5ExByztvsKf9eRbKKLXkLkhduQ59VqcGTU0kDOvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190729120802.000025e8@huawei.com>
Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> 于2019年7月29日周一 下午7:09写道:
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:03:07 -0400
> Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:03:00AM +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
> > > Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> 于2019年7月28日周日 下午4:31写道:
> > > > devm_add_action() could be used in the probe function to schedule the call
> > > > to tsl2772_chip_off(). That would eliminate the need for
> > > > tsl2772_remove(). See tsl2772_disable_regulators_action() for an example in
> > > > that driver.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I find that we can use devm_add_action_or_reset() for
> > > tsl2772_disable_regulators_action() to eliminate the fault handling code.
> > >
> > > I am not sure whether devm_add_action() can be used for
> > > tsl2772_chip_off() because it returns an integer, not void.
> > > And the return value is used in several functions.
> >
> > I would add a wrapper function (tsl2772_chip_off_action?) with the
> > expected declaration that calls tsl2772_chip_off().
> >
> > > > Chuhong: Another potential cleanup to shrink the size of this driver is
> > > > to move it over to the regulator_bulk_() API. I didn't realize that API
> > > > existed at the time I introduced the regulator support. If you're
> > > > interested in taking on that cleanup as well, I can test those changes
> > > > for you if you don't have the hardware.
> > > >
> > > > Brian
> > > >
> > >
> > > Does that mean merging vdd_supply and vddio_supply to an array of
> > > regulator_bulk_data and utilize regulator_bulk_() API to operate them
> > > together?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > I have an additional question that I find regulator_disable() is used in the
> > > end of many .remove functions of drivers, which hinders us to use devm
> > > functions.
> > > One example is drivers/iio/light/gp2ap020a00f.c.
> > > Is there any solution to this problem?
> >
> > There are devm_regulator_*() variants of the regulator API available
> > that you can use. Lots of other APIs in the kernel have devm variants
> > to simply drivers.
> I don't think there are any devm_ versions of regulator disable.
>
> IIRC the argument made when this last came up was that it was rarely correct
> to be as course grained as a lot of IIO drivers are. We should probably
> do runtime pm and turn these regulators off a lot more frequently.
>
> The reality is that it is an optimization that doesn't get done in
> IIO drivers that often as we mostly just want them to work and many
> usecases aren't actually power constrained,
>
> So we end up doing a lot of devm_add_action_or_reset to power down the
> regulators.
>
I think I can add devm_ versions of regulator_enable and disable.
Chuhong
> Jonathan
> >
> > Brian
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-26 12:30 [PATCH] iio: tsl2772: Use device-managed API Chuhong Yuan
2019-07-27 11:57 ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-07-28 8:31 ` Brian Masney
2019-07-29 3:03 ` Chuhong Yuan
2019-07-29 8:03 ` Brian Masney
2019-07-29 11:08 ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-07-29 13:02 ` Chuhong Yuan [this message]
2019-07-29 13:51 ` Brian Masney
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