[PATCH v4] media: i2c: ov13858: add regulator, clock and reset GPIO handling

From: Sergey Lebedev

Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 17:03:07 EST


The driver assumes the sensor is already powered when probe() reads its
chip ID. That holds where the rails and clock are ACPI power resources,
but not where an INT3472 companion device registers them as regulators, a
clock and a reset GPIO for the sensor driver to consume, which this
driver does not do.

Request the three supplies and the reset GPIO, and sequence them along
with the clock the driver already looks up, in runtime PM callbacks.

Tested-by: German Pablo Lindo <germanpapulindez@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Simon Kruse <simon0x+git@xxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lebedev <lsa.uz@xxxxx>
---
Changes in v4:
- runtime PM ops only, without the system sleep handlers that
DEFINE_RUNTIME_DEV_PM_OPS() adds, as camera-sensor.rst asks. With them, a
system suspend tried during a stream powered the sensor off before the
IPU6 ISYS refused the suspend, and the stream stalled; now it goes on.
- German's and Simon's Tested-by from v3 kept: the change touches only
system sleep, which neither reported testing. Simon's was not threaded
under v3:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261010142353.23707-1-simon0x+git@xxxxxxxxx/
Link to v3: https://patch.msgid.link/20260831130312.26296-1-lsa.uz@xxxxx

George Neacsu's device tree support for this sensor builds on it:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261015-ov13858-x1e-v1-0-acdd918f4fb6@xxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v3, from Sakari Ailus's review of v2:
- wrapped the one line over 80 columns
- dropped an unrelated hunk in ov13858_id_table. It was not deliberate: v2 was
regenerated against mainline from a tree based on a distribution kernel, and
that difference came along with it.
Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260831124352.86935-1-lsa.uz@xxxxx

Changes in v2, from the review of v1:
- commit message cut down; the detail below
- dropped the comment on the supply names; it is a KAPI with int3472
- ARRAY_SIZE() directly instead of a local macro
- fsleep() instead of usleep_range()
- one function each for power on and off, used as the PM callbacks directly,
instead of a pair of wrappers
- removed the now-useless dev_err() in the probe error path
- i declared inside its loop
Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260831100404.40463-1-lsa.uz@xxxxx

Without the patch the first I2C transaction fails:

ov13858 i2c-OVTID858:00: failed to find sensor: -5

The power sequence follows ov02c10: supplies, then clock, then release reset,
and the reverse on the way down.

Measured on a Microsoft Surface Pro 11 for Business (Intel Lunar Lake, IPU7),
with the parts isolated one at a time:

supplies enabled, clock enabled sensor identifies, driver binds
supplies enabled, clock left off -EIO
supplies left off, clock enabled -EIO

so both are needed; a longer settling delay alone is not enough. Verified
across five module unload/load cycles with no probe failure, and again after
this rework, with the sensor streaming each time.

This needs POWER1 GPIO support in int3472 to be useful on that machine: the
dvdd rail is described there as an INT3472 GPIO of type 0x08, and without that
patch the rail is never registered.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260829-sp7plus-int3472-v3-1-454b50485ce2@xxxxxxx

The same sensor on the Surface Pro 10 was made to work downstream by forcing
the regulators on for the driver's lifetime, which the people who did it
called too broad for upstream. Runtime PM keeps them off while the sensor is
idle instead.
Link: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/2153

dovdd is not described on this machine and resolves to a dummy regulator. It
is listed because it is one of the three supplies these sensors normally take.

A working camera also needs an ipu-bridge entry for OVTID858, separately.

drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c
index 5a49fa0ec02..5d7b3c335de 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@

#include <linux/acpi.h>
#include <linux/clk.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
#include <linux/i2c.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
+#include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
#include <media/v4l2-ctrls.h>
#include <media/v4l2-device.h>
#include <media/v4l2-event.h>
@@ -1034,9 +1037,17 @@ static const struct ov13858_mode supported_modes[] = {
}
};

+static const char * const ov13858_supply_names[] = {
+ "dovdd", /* Digital I/O power */
+ "avdd", /* Analog power */
+ "dvdd", /* Digital core power */
+};
+
struct ov13858 {
struct device *dev;
struct clk *clk;
+ struct regulator_bulk_data supplies[ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_supply_names)];
+ struct gpio_desc *reset_gpio;

struct v4l2_subdev sd;
struct media_pad pad;
@@ -1706,6 +1717,54 @@ static void ov13858_free_controls(struct ov13858 *ov13858)
mutex_destroy(&ov13858->mutex);
}

+static int ov13858_power_on(struct device *dev)
+{
+ struct v4l2_subdev *sd = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ struct ov13858 *ov13858 = to_ov13858(sd);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = regulator_bulk_enable(ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_supply_names),
+ ov13858->supplies);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(ov13858->dev, "failed to enable regulators: %d\n", ret);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ ret = clk_prepare_enable(ov13858->clk);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(ov13858->dev, "failed to enable clock: %d\n", ret);
+ regulator_bulk_disable(ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_supply_names), ov13858->supplies);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ if (ov13858->reset_gpio) {
+ /* Hold reset for at least 1 ms on a back to back off-on */
+ fsleep(1000);
+ gpiod_set_value_cansleep(ov13858->reset_gpio, 0);
+ }
+
+ /* t4: 8192 XVCLK cycles after reset is released, before the first I2C */
+ fsleep(5000);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int ov13858_power_off(struct device *dev)
+{
+ struct v4l2_subdev *sd = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ struct ov13858 *ov13858 = to_ov13858(sd);
+
+ gpiod_set_value_cansleep(ov13858->reset_gpio, 1);
+ regulator_bulk_disable(ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_supply_names), ov13858->supplies);
+ clk_disable_unprepare(ov13858->clk);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct dev_pm_ops ov13858_pm_ops = {
+ RUNTIME_PM_OPS(ov13858_power_off, ov13858_power_on, NULL)
+};
+
static int ov13858_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
{
struct ov13858 *ov13858;
@@ -1729,14 +1788,34 @@ static int ov13858_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
"external clock %lu is not supported\n",
freq);

+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_supply_names); i++)
+ ov13858->supplies[i].supply = ov13858_supply_names[i];
+
+ ret = devm_regulator_bulk_get(ov13858->dev, ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_supply_names),
+ ov13858->supplies);
+ if (ret)
+ return dev_err_probe(ov13858->dev, ret,
+ "failed to get regulators\n");
+
+ ov13858->reset_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(ov13858->dev, "reset",
+ GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+ if (IS_ERR(ov13858->reset_gpio))
+ return dev_err_probe(ov13858->dev,
+ PTR_ERR(ov13858->reset_gpio),
+ "failed to get reset GPIO\n");
+
/* Initialize subdev */
v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&ov13858->sd, client, &ov13858_subdev_ops);

+ ret = ov13858_power_on(ov13858->dev);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
/* Check module identity */
ret = ov13858_identify_module(ov13858);
if (ret) {
dev_err(ov13858->dev, "failed to find sensor: %d\n", ret);
- return ret;
+ goto error_power_off;
}

/* Set default mode to max resolution */
@@ -1744,7 +1823,7 @@ static int ov13858_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

ret = ov13858_init_controls(ov13858);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto error_power_off;

/* Initialize subdev */
ov13858->sd.internal_ops = &ov13858_internal_ops;
@@ -1780,7 +1859,9 @@ static int ov13858_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

error_handler_free:
ov13858_free_controls(ov13858);
- dev_err(ov13858->dev, "%s failed:%d\n", __func__, ret);
+
+error_power_off:
+ ov13858_power_off(ov13858->dev);

return ret;
}
@@ -1795,6 +1876,9 @@ static void ov13858_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
ov13858_free_controls(ov13858);

pm_runtime_disable(ov13858->dev);
+ if (!pm_runtime_status_suspended(ov13858->dev))
+ ov13858_power_off(ov13858->dev);
+ pm_runtime_set_suspended(ov13858->dev);
}

static const struct i2c_device_id ov13858_id_table[] = {
@@ -1817,6 +1901,7 @@ static struct i2c_driver ov13858_i2c_driver = {
.driver = {
.name = "ov13858",
.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(ov13858_acpi_ids),
+ .pm = pm_ptr(&ov13858_pm_ops),
},
.probe = ov13858_probe,
.remove = ov13858_remove,
--
2.54.0