On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:13:31 +0000 Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Okay, I guess we need to fix panthor then...
