Re: [PATCH 08/22] regulator: Change ab8500 match names to reflectDevice Tree

From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 07:29:06 EST


On 11/06/12 11:36, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:27:53AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
On 05/06/12 11:38, Mark Brown wrote:

You're missing something - note what I say above about the direction the
mapping is done in, and consider what happens if we've got two of the
same PMIC down in a system.

I'm still not seeing how this would cause an issue. The only Device
Tree nodes which will be parsed are the ones which are specified by
a particular driver's compatible string, meaning that any other
nodes referencing similar regulator/supply names would be ignored.

Suppose you have two devices of the same type with an array of name
based regulators, meaning the nodes with constraints have to have a
particular name in order to be matched to the regulator. How would a
consumer reference a node to specify a supply?

some-regulators {
compatible = "protect_me_from_similarly_named_regulators";

regulator_node_name_reg: regulator_node_name {
<blah>
};
};

[supply_name]-supply = <&regulator_node_name>;

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