Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mfd: max77686: Don't suggest in binding to use a deprecated property

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 06:41:10 EST


Hello Mark,

On 07/27/2015 12:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:28:07PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 07/20/2015 12:12 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>
>>> This PMIC uses a single I2C address for all the regulators and these are
>>> controlled by writing to different I2C register addresses. So the regulator
>>> nodes don't have a reg property in this case.
>
>>> By looking at other regulators bindings, besides the generic regulator.txt
>>> and fixed-regulator.txt DT bindings, there are only 5 (out of 40) that use
>>> the node-name@unit-address convention mentioned in the ePAPR document.
>
>>> AFAICT all these are for regulators that are actually in different addresses
>>> but I could be wrong so let's see what Mark says.
>
>> Any opinions on this?
>
> I just don't care, this is just syntactic noise which has no practical
> meaning as far as I can tell.
>

thanks, I'll then leave the regulator's node name as is in the patch
since that is consistent with the rest of the regulator DT bindings.

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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