On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:44:50PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 08:51:54AM PDT, Mark Brown wrote:

> > We don't turn things off on reboot?  We don't do anything in particular
> > on reboot...

> Okay, perhaps not on reboot specifically, but the userspace-consumer driver
> has a regulator_bulk_disable() in its .remove function, so it would be
> triggered at least by a module unload (which is sort of why I ended up with
> the "when software relinquishes control" wording in the patch).  If we're
> going to continue with the plan of using that driver for this functionality
> (which seems overall quite reasonable to me), we need a way to express that
> that must not happen on this hardware.

Ah, that would be the test driver not intended to be used in production
then...  That shouldn't be a blocker for the DT binding, and if there's
a different compatible string for this application then we can either
make the userspace consumer do something different based on that
compatible string or have a new driver which does something more
sensible and perhaps has a better userspace ABI.  Either way so long as
we can tell the thing being described is a BMC output from the DT
binding I think we can leave it up to the OS to do something constructive
with that rather than trying to control the specific behaviour in the
binding.