Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dt: tegra: cardhu: register core regulator tps65911

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Tue May 22 2012 - 13:19:11 EST


On 05/22/2012 11:09 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2012 10:10 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 05/22/2012 07:05 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>>> Add device info for the PMIC device tps65911 in tegra-cardhu
>>> dts file. This device supports the multiple regulator rails,
>>> gpio, interrupts.
>> FYI, patch 1 in this series looks fine. Some comments below though:
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra-cardhu.dts
>>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra-cardhu.dts
>>> + tps65911: tps65911@2d {
>>> + compatible = "ti,tps65911";
>>> + reg =<0x2d>;
>>> +
>>> + #gpio-cells =<2>;
>>> + gpio-controller;
>>> +
>>> + regulators {
>>
>> Please add the following properties here:
>>
>> #address-cells =<1>;
>> #size-cells =<0>;
>>
>>> + vdd1_reg: vdd1 {
>>
>> This node name should be "regulator", since nodes are generally named
>> after the class of object they represent. Since all the nodes will then
>> have the same name, you'll need to add a unit address ("@nnnn") to the
>> node name.
>
> Nop, we can not do it. The node name should match with the name
> mentioned in driver otherwise the regulator node search will fail
> Following is the excerpt of the code:

Hmm. That seems wrong. I thought I had seen at least some regulator
bindings where these nodes included a name property so that the nodes
didn't need any particular name.

Olof, what are your thoughts here - do we need to fix the code so the
node names aren't relevant? IIRC, we have had to change some other
bindings due to the same issue.

...
>> Nitpicky, but the labels might be more logical as reg_vdd1 rather than
>> vdd1_reg, but not a big deal.
>>
>> So, please replace the line above with:
>>
>> reg_vdd1: regulator@0 {
>> reg =<0>;
>>
>
> Why do we really require the reg at all?
> I dont think any usage of doing this.

I guess if these regulators are enabled at boot and always on, we don't
even need the labels for now; we could add labels later as/when drivers
begin to dynamically control the regulators.
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