Please excuse any poor formatting that may occur, as this is
copy-paste into my mailer, but what do you think of this idea?

To locate a consumer that currently holds a regulattor, a new sysfs
entry is created. The consumer are published in
/sys/class/regulator/regulator.<#>/use.

---
 drivers/regulator/core.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 046fb1b..40fd150 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct regulator {
   struct device_attribute dev_attr;
   struct regulator_dev *rdev;
   struct dentry *debugfs;
+  int use;
 };
 
 static int _regulator_is_enabled(struct regulator_dev *rdev);
@@ -602,6 +603,32 @@ static ssize_t
regulator_suspend_standby_state_show(struct device *dev,
 static DEVICE_ATTR(suspend_standby_state, 0444,
                                           regulator_suspend_standby_state_show,
                                           NULL);
 
+static ssize_t regulator_use_show(struct device *dev,
+                                  struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+       struct regulator_dev *rdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+       struct regulator *reg;
+       size_t size = 0;
+
+       if (rdev->use_count == 0)
+               return sprintf(buf, "no users\n");
+
+       list_for_each_entry(reg, &rdev->consumer_list, list) {
+               if (!reg->use)
+                       continue;
+
+               if (reg->dev != NULL)
+                       size += sprintf((buf + size), "%s (%d) ",
+                                       dev_name(reg->dev), reg->use);
+               else
+                       size += sprintf((buf + size), "unknown (%d) ",
+                                                reg->use);
+       }
+       size += sprintf((buf + size), "\n");
+
+       return size;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(use, 0444, regulator_use_show, NULL);
 
 /*
  * These are the only attributes are present for all regulators.
@@ -1540,6 +1567,8 @@ int regulator_enable(struct regulator
*regulator)
 
        if (ret != 0 && rdev->supply)
                regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
+       else
+               regulator->use++;
 
        return ret;
 }
@@ -1613,6 +1642,9 @@ int regulator_disable(struct regulator
*regulator)
        if (ret == 0 && rdev->supply)
           regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
 
+       if (ret == 0)
+               regulator->use--;
+
        return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_disable);
@@ -2699,6 +2731,10 @@ static int add_regulator_attributes(struct
                                                           regulator_dev *rdev)
              struct regulator_ops      *ops = rdev->desc->ops;
              int                            status = 0;
 
+       status = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_use);
+       if (status < 0)
+               dev_warn(dev, "Create sysfs file \"use\" failed");
+
        /* some attributes need specific methods to be displayed */
        if ((ops->get_voltage && ops->get_voltage(rdev) >= 0) ||
            (ops->get_voltage_sel && ops->get_voltage_sel(rdev) >= 0))
                {

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