On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 01:46:01PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote: > Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The panthor driver is buggy here and should be fixed, the driver should > > treat the supply as mandatory and let the system integration work out > > how it's actually made available. > > Trying to open code this just breaks the error handling. > Maybe, but the thing is, the DT bindings have been accepted already, > and it's not something we can easily change. What we can do is make this > sram-supply mandatory for new compatibles, but we can't force it on > older/existing SoCs without breaking backward-DT compat. In practice you can because we do sub in a dummy regulator for missing supplies, it produces a warning but works fine. If we didn't do this it'd be basically impossible to add regulator support to anything at any point after the original merge which is clearly not reasonable.
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