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Message-ID: <27d51c2c498cc5921998829e5279bf136d10f2dc.camel@codeconstruct.com.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:55:29 +1030
From: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...econstruct.com.au>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>, 
	Naresh Solanki <naresh.solanki@...ements.com>
Cc: broonie@...nel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, Rob Herring
	 <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
	 <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, 
	linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: ir38060: Move & update dt
 binding

Hi Guenter,

On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 06:46 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 2/12/25 02:43, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > The history of the problem from what I can see looks like:
> > 
> >     1. pmbus regulator support exploiting "regulators" as an OF
> > child
> >        node was merged for 3.19[1]
> 
> I hope you mean "make full use of and derive benefit from (a
> resource)"
> and not "use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way".

Certainly "make full use of and derive benefit from (a
resource)" and nothing further.

> If you think it is not appropriate for PMBus devices to register as
> regulators, please let me know, and feel free to suggest a better
> solution.

My only intent was to observe the history of the problem highlighted by
Naresh's patch. I don't have any concerns about PMBus devices
registering as regulators.

Thanks,

Andrew

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