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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:21:36 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: max77650: add of_match table

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:10:15PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> wt., 10 gru 2019 o 14:02 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> napisał(a):

> > This seems to work fine for other drivers and the platform bus has to be
> > usable on systems that don't use DT so that doesn't sound right.  Which
> > MODULE_ALIAS() are you using exactly?

> MODULE_ALIAS("platform:max77650-regulator");

Huh, that should work...  I wonder if adding a compatible to the DT has
messed it up, does it work without the compatible in the .dts (and with
the of_compatible removed from the MFD driver I guess)?

> > > Besides: the DT bindings define the compatible for sub-nodes already.
> > > We should probably conform to that.

> > I would say that's a mistake and should be fixed, this particular way of
> > loading the regulators is a Linux implementation detail.

> Fixed by removing this from the bindings?

Yeah.  Though it may be too late, shame I didn't catch this when it was
merged :(

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