Re: [PATCH v7 5/7] PCI: brcmstb: Add control of subdevice voltage regulators

[Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@broadcom.com>]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 4:25 PM Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 3:45 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 02:49:35PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> >
> > > +     for_each_property_of_node(dn, pp) {
> > > +             for (i = 0; i < ns; i++) {
> > > +                     char prop_name[64]; /* 64 is max size of property name */
> > > +
> > > +                     snprintf(prop_name, 64, "%s-supply", supplies[i]);
> > > +                     if (strcmp(prop_name, pp->name) == 0)
> > > +                             break;
> > > +             }
> > > +             if (i >= ns || pcie->num_supplies >= ARRAY_SIZE(supplies))
> > > +                     continue;
> > > +
> > > +             pcie->supplies[pcie->num_supplies++].supply = supplies[i];
> > > +     }
> >
> > Why are we doing this?  If the DT omits the supplies the framework will
> > provide dummy supplies so there is no need to open code handling for
> > supplies not being present at all in client drivers.  Just
> > unconditionally ask for all the supplies.
>
> I did it to squelch the "supply xxxxx not found, using dummy
> regulator" output.  I'll change it.
Now I remember: if I know there are no vpciexxx-supplly props in the
DT, I can skip executing all of the buik regulator calls entirely, as
well as walking the PCI bus as in brcm_regulators_off().

Do you consider this a valid reason?

Jim

Jim

Jim

> Regards, Jim