Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: tps65086: Add DT bindings for the TPS65086 PMIC

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:18:32PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:46:33AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Andrew F. Davis wrote:

> > It is however the normal way we write compatible strings - the class
> > information would normaly go in the node name (ie, i2c@7000c000 or
> > whatever).

> I didn't say it hasn't been done before, just that I didn't like it
> for the aforementioned reasons.  I can also find 1000's of compatible
> strings which do append "-<device_type>", so it's not exactly an
> unheard of practice.

It's a pretty substantial change in the way we make compatible strings
that we probably want to discuss more widely if we want to adopt it -
we've not been using that idiom and it's pretty surprising.  I'm not
really sure it help much and we do already have the pre-@ noise words
for this purpose (as well as comments in the DT).

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