[PATCH] regulator: Documentation fix for regulator error notification helper

From: Matti Vaittinen
Date: Mon Aug 23 2021 - 03:57:05 EST


The helper to send IRQ notification for regulator errors had still
old description mentioning calling BUG() as a last resort when
error status reading has kept failing for more times than a given
threshold.

The impementation calling BUG() did never end-up in-tree but was
replaced by hopefully more sophisticated handler trying to power-off
the system.

Fix the documentation to reflect actual behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/regulator/irq_helpers.c | 2 +-
include/linux/regulator/driver.h | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/irq_helpers.c b/drivers/regulator/irq_helpers.c
index fabe2e53093e..522764435575 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/irq_helpers.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/irq_helpers.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static irqreturn_t regulator_notifier_isr(int irq, void *data)
* If retry_count exceeds the given safety limit we call IC specific die
* handler which can try disabling regulator(s).
*
- * If no die handler is given we will just bug() as a last resort.
+ * If no die handler is given we will just power-off as a last resort.
*
* We could try disabling all associated rdevs - but we might shoot
* ourselves in the head and leave the problematic regulator enabled. So
diff --git a/include/linux/regulator/driver.h b/include/linux/regulator/driver.h
index 92bf7584a2f0..bd7a73db2e66 100644
--- a/include/linux/regulator/driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/regulator/driver.h
@@ -527,8 +527,8 @@ struct regulator_irq_data {
* active events as core does not clean the map data.
* REGULATOR_FAILED_RETRY can be returned to indicate that the
* status reading from IC failed. If this is repeated for
- * fatal_cnt times the core will call die() callback or BUG()
- * as a last resort to protect the HW.
+ * fatal_cnt times the core will call die() callback or power-off
+ * the system as a last resort to protect the HW.
* @renable: Optional callback to check status (if HW supports that) before
* re-enabling IRQ. If implemented this should clear the error
* flags so that errors fetched by regulator_get_error_flags()
@@ -537,7 +537,8 @@ struct regulator_irq_data {
* REGULATOR_FAILED_RETRY can be returned to
* indicate that the status reading from IC failed. If this is
* repeated for 'fatal_cnt' times the core will call die()
- * callback or BUG() as a last resort to protect the HW.
+ * callback or if die() is not populated then attempt to power-off
+ * the system as a last resort to protect the HW.
* Returning zero indicates that the problem in HW has been solved
* and IRQ will be re-enabled. Returning REGULATOR_ERROR_ON
* indicates the error condition is still active and keeps IRQ

base-commit: aa9f92097dcc83848ee7e4ea5ddbdd15db5eff64
--
2.25.4


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Matti Vaittinen, Linux device drivers
ROHM Semiconductors, Finland SWDC
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90220 OULU
FINLAND

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