linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] ARM: dts: Create fragment for tps65090 PMU

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:58:52 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Yuvaraj Kumar C D <yuvaraj.cd@...il.com>,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ARM: dts: Create fragment for tps65090 PMU

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The tps65090 is a Power Management Unit (PMU) used in several
> boards so the same information is described on different DTS.
> It is better to create a .dtsi fragment that can be included.

Why is it better to do this?

> +	regulators {
> +		tps65090_dcdc1: dcdc1 {
> +		};
> +

It appears to be largely content free, exactly the same effect should be
achieved by removing the entire regulators node.

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