Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] pmbus: ltc2978: add regulator support

[Guenter Roeck]

On 09/24/2014 03:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 02:13:32PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:48:40PM -0500, atull wrote:
>
> > > > regulator.47/name:vout_en0
>
> > > These are just default names, but I think I could make the name better.
> > > How about <part #>-<i2c address>-vout<#> such as "ltc2978-5c-vout0"
>
> > Problem with that is that i2c bus numbers are not static, which would
> > make it quite difficult to describe the regulator in devicetree data.
>
> > Any idea what other regulators do in such situations ?
>
> What's there is correct (modulo the _en), the names are local to the
> chip.  If the user actually cares they will be providing the name of the
> supply on the board anyway.

Great, thanks a lot.

Guenter

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