On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 09:12:17AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:31:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > The warning is fine so long as there's no action on it but use regular > > regulator_bulk_disable() since as you youself said force disable is not > > appropriate here. > It's just the documentation of regulator_bulk_force_disable() that > irritates me. It's behaviour is exactly fine. If a user of several > regulators goes away, it should try to disable all regulators and if one > fails to disable it's better to the others instead of keeping all > enabled. Well, you definitely don't want force disable since it ignores refcounting and might impact something else sharing the regulator. You'd want to add a separate function that just ignored errors, though bear in mind that a lot of datasheets recommend against having the device partially powered, warning that it may damage the part.
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