On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:31:55AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > If we're just going to use the most recently set voltage then hopefully
> > the hardware already knew that, and it might not be the lowest available
> > voltage if the last consumer to get turned off was holding the voltage
> > higher.

> To circle back to the original point: the problem is that (IMHO) the
> hardware is doing the wrong thing by still counting Linux's vote for a
> voltage even though Linux also voted that the regulator should be
> disabled.  So basically we're working around the hardware by
> pretending to vote for a dummy lower voltage whenever Linux wants the
> regulator disabled.  From Linux's point of view everything works as
> normal--we just tell the hardware a falsehood so it doesn't count our
> vote for a voltage while the regulator is disabled.

Yeah, and I don't think that's unreasonable for the core to do - just
drop the voltage to the constraint minimum after it has turned off the
regulator, then recheck and raise if needed before it enables again.