Some outsiders have regeneration that can be stopped by dealing them damage of the appropriate alignament. For example an upasunda asura has regeneration 5 / good weapons and spells.
If I summon a good outsider does its attacks stop the regeneration?
Good subtype says
A creature with the good subtype overcomes damage reduction as if its natural weapons and any weapons it wields are good-aligned.
But there is no mention of them counting as good for anything else than overcoming dr.
So can eg. a bralani azata shut down the regeneration of an asura?
I tend to agree with you , but is this actually written somewhere? The subtype text mentions the weapons are aligned for the purpose of overcoming dr but does not mention regeneration. We had an argument about this a little while ago with the GM of that game ( in the end we used good aligned spells).
Is there no RAW answer then?
What do folks think it should be? I agree with Meirril that having a subtype means your attacks stop regeneration as well as overcome dr.
Agree or disagree?
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AFAIK, there is no RAW text saying that, it is only implied. Regeneration say: "The creature's descriptive text describes the types of damage that cause the regeneration to cease functioning.", but beside some spell there is little that do aligned damage.
Even a holy sword say "This power makes the weapon good-aligned and thus bypasses the corresponding damage reduction.", so, by RAW it bypasses DR, but don't stop regeneration/good.
With the difference in text between order wrath "You channel lawful power to smite enemies." and holy smite "You draw down holy power to smite your enemies." even holy smite, by RAW, don't deal good damage, while order wrath deal lawful damage.
I go by RAI and consider that any good aligned weapon and creature with the good subtype deal good damage.
Holy damage for spell is generally considered good, unholy evil, but with some of them defining it "divine damage" seem more appropriate.