On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 12:27:44PM +0200, Paul Louvel wrote:
> Regulation activity may be enabled by default when the device powers up.
> A consumer may query the regulator's state during probe and may disable
> it if it is already enabled, potentially resulting in an unbalanced
> disable operation:
> 
> ret = regulator_is_enabled();
> if (ret < 0)
>   return ret;
> 
> if (ret)
>   ret = regulator_disable();
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As covered elsewhere this driver code is buggy.  I can't see how to use
this feature sensibly, if a driver can safely disable the regulator on
startup it should just do that and if the regulator could be shared then
it has no idea why the regulator was enabled.