Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dt: tegra: cardhu: register core regulatortps65911

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:24:06PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/08/2012 09:06 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > If we're going to do this we need to update all the existing DT bindings
> > for drivers that use single node regulators like this.  Please also
> > change the name used for the property to regulator-compatible to make it
> > clear that the idea is the same as normal compatible properties.

> I'm not sure of the logic behind naming the property
> "regulator-compatible"; the standard compatible property identifies that
> the node is of a particular type/class, whereas the regulator-id in the
> example Laxman quoted would indicate the specific identity/object. Those
> seem like different things.

They're both doing the same thing - up until you get the second register
compatible device a compatible binding is referencing a specific thing
too.  It's just saying "handle this like an X".
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