linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for Maxim 14577

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Message-ID: <20131127152358.GP3296@lee--X1>
Date:	Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:23:58 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for
 Maxim 14577

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
> > +	{
> > +		.name = "max14577-regulator",
> > +		.of_compatible = "maxim,max14577-regulator",
> > +	},
> 
> Why is there a compatible for this at all, would this ever appear as
> part of a different device?

For automatic assigning of it's of_node.

In previous incarnations of this set it was done manually for some reason.

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