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| author | Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> | 2012-09-24 13:25:00 -0600 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> | 2012-09-25 13:44:47 +0100 |
| commit | 13511def87b9f68697a0fc4c64ddacece585a471 (patch) | |
| tree | bd3dbf02ab5a04d1e09c71fa6b6c982f1669f248 /Documentation/devicetree | |
| parent | 3b26e48308feaf428efb917f8de217797bfedb26 (diff) | |
| download | linux-13511def87b9f68697a0fc4c64ddacece585a471.tar.gz | |
regulator: deprecate regulator-compatible DT property
When the bindings for the TPS6586x regulator were being proposed, I
asserted that DT node naming rules for bus child nodes should also be
applied to nodes inside the TPS6586x regulator node itself. In other
words, that each node providing regulator init data should be named
after the type of object it represented ("regulator") and hence that
some other property was required to indicate which regulator the node
described ("regulator-compatible"). In turn this led to multiple nodes
having the same name, thus requiring node names to use a unit address
to make them unique, thus requiring reg properties within the nodes and
However, subsequent discussion indicates that the rules I was asserting
only applies to standardized bus nodes, and within a device's own node,
the binding can basically do anything sane that it wants.
Hence, this change deprecates the register-compatible property, and
instead uses node names to replace this functionality. This greatly
simplifies the device tree content, making them smaller and more legible.
The code is changed such that old device trees continue to work.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/devicetree')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt index 66ece3f87bbc..ecfc6ccd67ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt @@ -11,10 +11,13 @@ Optional properties: - regulator-boot-on: bootloader/firmware enabled regulator - <name>-supply: phandle to the parent supply/regulator node - regulator-ramp-delay: ramp delay for regulator(in uV/uS) + +Deprecated properties: - regulator-compatible: If a regulator chip contains multiple regulators, and if the chip's binding contains a child node that describes each regulator, then this property indicates which regulator - this child node is intended to configure. + this child node is intended to configure. If this property is missing, + the node's name will be used instead. Example: |