On Freitag, 24. März 2023 09:32:52 CEST Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 08:35:02PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Some LEDs controllers are used with external pull-up for the interrupt
> > > line and the I2C lines, so we might need to enable a regulator to bring
> > > the lines into usable state. Otherwise, this might cause spurious
> > > interrupts and reading from I2C will fail.
> > >
> > > Implement support for "vddio-supply" that is enabled by the aw2013
> > > driver
> > > so that the regulator gets enabled when needed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lin, Meng-Bo <linmengbo0689@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > @@ -348,16 +350,20 @@ static int aw2013_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
> > >
> > > goto error;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > - chip->vcc_regulator = devm_regulator_get(&client->dev, "vcc");
> > > - ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(chip->vcc_regulator);
> > > - if (ret) {
> > > + chip->regulators[0].supply = "vcc";
> > > + chip->regulators[1].supply = "vddio";
> > > + ret = devm_regulator_bulk_get(&client->dev,
> > > + ARRAY_SIZE(chip->regulators),
> > > + chip->regulators);
> > > + if (ret < 0) {
> > >
> > > if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > >
> > > dev_err(&client->dev,
> > >
> > > "Failed to request regulator: %d\n",
ret);
> > >
> > > goto error;
> >
> > Won't this cause failures when optional vddio is unavailable?
>
> The regulator core should print a warning "supply vddio not found, using
> dummy regulator" but then proceed normally.
>
> I think in almost all cases a separate I/O supply should actually exist
> that could be described in the device tree. It was likely just omitted
> because it's always-on or indirectly being enabled by other devices.
> So perhaps having this warning is even a good thing?
Just briefly jumping in, there was some activity adding bus_regulator to the
i2c-core a while back, maybe that can be revived instead? For CCI (camera i2c)
we also need pull-ups and I don't think adding vddio or whatever to all
sensors is a good idea long term...
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210527075556.1709140-1-hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
Regards
Luca
>
> Thanks,
> Stephan
