Re: [PATCH 08/22] regulator: Change ab8500 match names to reflectDevice Tree

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jun 05 2012 - 06:38:44 EST


On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:31:24AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On 01/06/12 09:48, Mark Brown wrote:

> >What makes you say the two are equivalent? The former is a reference
> >from a consumer device to a named regulator while the latter is a
> >reference from a regulator to a named consumer.

> I mean they both link regulator<->consumer and apply the name "vmmc"
> to the supply, or am I missing something / getting confused?

You're missing something - note what I say above about the direction the
mapping is done in, and consider what happens if we've got two of the
same PMIC down in a system.

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