Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] PCI: brcmstb: Add control of EP voltage regulator(s)

From: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@broadcom.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "open list:PCI NATIVE HOST BRIDGE AND ENDPOINT DRIVERS" 
	<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>,
	"maintainer:BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
	<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	"moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
	<linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] PCI: brcmstb: Add control of EP voltage regulator(s)
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:26:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+-6iNzJAf_bKVjbw8bkh3qmSU++m6-DoFKQvBTTZGonYJGXfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201126114912.GA8506@sirena.org.uk>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1980 bytes --]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 6:49 AM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:24:19PM -0500, Jim Quinlan wrote:
>
> > +     for (i = 0; i < PCIE_REGULATORS_MAX; i++) {
> > +             ep_reg = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, ep_regulator_names[i]);
> > +             if (IS_ERR(ep_reg)) {
>
> Does PCI allow supplies to be physically absent?  If not then the driver
> shouldn't be using regulator_get_optional() and much of the code here
> can be deleted.
Hi Mark,

First, as an aside, I'm  a little confused about the purpose of
devm_regulator_get_optional(...);  the other  xxx_get_optional() calls
I am familiar with (eg clock, reset, gpio) return NULL if the desired
item does not exist, and then NULL can be used as a valid pointer for
the rest of the API.  Not so here.

At any rate, our SOCs are placed in a variety of boards which
implement the PCIe RC-EP connection as they wish.  From the PCIe
driver's point of view, the type of power supply that needs to be
turned on is specified in the DT and they cannot be hard coded by the
driver.  I've listed all of the four possibilities; typically one,
maybe two will  be specified, but never all of them.  In addition,
sometimes a regulator is hard wired on and not even controllable by
the PCIe controller.

>
> > +static void brcm_set_regulators(struct brcm_pcie *pcie, bool on)
> > +{
>
> This is open coding the regulator bulk APIs.
Except that a bulk regulator "get"  requires that all supplies are
present.  I would have to first scan the node's properties for the
"-supply" properties and fill in the bulk regulator structure.  I'm
fine with doing that.

However, a previous incarnation of this  commit was reviewed by RobH,
and if I understood him correctly he wanted the actual names of the
possible regulators to be used and specified in the bindings doc.   I
just followed the example of "pcie-rockchip-host.c" whose bindings doc
was reviewed by RobH.

Regards,
Jim Quinlan
Broadcom STB

[-- Attachment #2: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature --]
[-- Type: application/pkcs7-signature, Size: 4167 bytes --]