On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 06:32:19PM +0900, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:

> The regulator-fixed driver is possible to be off by firmware
> like PSCI while the system is suspended. If a consumer could get
> such a condition from regulator_is_enabled(), it's useful by
> consumers.

> The regulator subsystem already has regulator-state-(standby|mem|disk)
> sub-nodes and regulator-off-in-suspend property. However,
> suitable regulator_ops APIs didn't exist.

> So, add new regulator_ops APIs and prepare()/resume_early() in
> the regulator_pm_ops to set/clear the condition by new APIs before
> suspend() functions of consumers are called.

I can't follow this explanation at all, I really can't understand what
these functions are supposed to do or how they are supposed to be used.
Nothing in the rest of this series is at all enlightening either.  It
seems there is some need for a consumer to query things about the
suspend state but there is no obvious connection from that to adding
these new operations for regulator drivers.