Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] nfc: s3fwrn5: enable the PVDD supply
Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 04:09:59AM +0200, Jorijn van der Graaf wrote: > The controller is powered by an externally switched PVDD rail. Get and > enable it in the i2c phy probe, before any of the chip's pins is driven > or its clock started, so the chip's power does not depend on whatever > state the bootloader or platform left the rail in. Boards that do not > describe the supply resolve to a dummy regulator, so the existing users > keep working; they gain the regulator core's dummy-supply warning until > their DTs describe the rail. Last sentence is redundant - we know how regulator framework works. What is not redundant and missing is why UART variants do not need supply. Best regards, Krzysztof