Re: Applied "regulator: wm8994: Pass descriptor instead of GPIO number" to the regulator tree

[Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>]

On 20/11/18 16:34, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 2018-11-20 17:16, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
>> On 20/11/18 15:56, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>> Hi Charles,
>>>
>>> On 2018-11-20 16:36, Charles Keepax wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:32:15PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:58:59PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 2018-11-20 15:47, Charles Keepax wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:43:32PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2018-05-17 18:41, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] regulator: wm8994: Pass descriptor instead of
>>>>>>>>> GPIO number
>>>>>>>> This patch causes following kernel warning on Samsung Exynos4412
>>>>>>>> based
>>>>>>>> Trats2 board:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> wm8994 4-001a: Failed to get supply 'DBVDD1': -517
>>>>>>>> wm8994 4-001a: Failed to get supplies: -517
>>>>> This is really weird, because the error in your log relates to
>>>>> DBVDD1 which is an independent regulator supplied by a separate
>>>>> regulator. I am really having some difficulty seeing how the
>>>>> patch interfers. It is definitely that patch which causes the
>>>>> issue, like you revert it and things work again?
>>>> Wait does the board still boot just you have an extra probe defer
>>>> now? Or does it actually fail?
>>>
>>> The board boots fine. The only new thing is the mentioned warning, which
>>> I would
>>>
>>> like to have fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>
>> -517 is EPROBE_DEFER. This isn't something  that needs "fixing" unless
>> the
>> driver is never able to probe.
>>
>> If the wm8994 eventually probes ok after retries it's not a problem,
>> it's normal kernel behaviour.
>>
>> If the wm8994 driver never manages to probe successfully it should
>> mean that
>> the driver which supplies DBVDD1 isn't available.
> 
> Deferred probe was there already. This patch however introduced the
> warning from gpiolib and I would like to have it fixed somehow. In both

I don't follow what it is you want, are you asking that it shouldn't probe
defer, or that it shouldn't log the reason why it deferred?

> cases (with this patch and before it) the wm8994 driver probes okay -
> when the required regulators are finally available.

Sounds like all is ok and working as expected.
If this is causing you a problem you'll need to provide more explanation of
what problem you have so we can understand.

> 
> Best regards
>