Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mfd: max77686: Don't suggest in binding to use a deprecated property

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 06:33:35 EST


On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:28:07PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 07/20/2015 12:12 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> > This PMIC uses a single I2C address for all the regulators and these are
> > controlled by writing to different I2C register addresses. So the regulator
> > nodes don't have a reg property in this case.

> > By looking at other regulators bindings, besides the generic regulator.txt
> > and fixed-regulator.txt DT bindings, there are only 5 (out of 40) that use
> > the node-name@unit-address convention mentioned in the ePAPR document.

> > AFAICT all these are for regulators that are actually in different addresses
> > but I could be wrong so let's see what Mark says.

> Any opinions on this?

I just don't care, this is just syntactic noise which has no practical
meaning as far as I can tell.

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