Re: [PATCH 1/3] regulator: max14577: Add proper dt-compatible strings

[Marek Szyprowski]

Hi Mark,

+CC: Rob Herring, here is the whole thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200221123813.GB5546@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t

On 21.02.2020 13:38, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> On 20.02.2020 17:56, Mark Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Why would we want to encode the particular way Linux happens to
>>> represent regulators on a MFD into the DT binding?  It's not clear that
>>> this is a generic thing (another OS might choose to have a separate
>>> object for each regulator with no parent for example) and the compatible
>>> isn't adding any information we didn't have already knowing about the
>>> parent device.
>>>
>> Well, that's how the bindings for max14577/max77836 are defined:
>>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max14577.txt
>>
>> I've only fixed regulator, charger and extcon drivers to match the cells
>> created by the current mfd driver.
> We could just remove the compatible strings from the binding
> documentation, they won't do any harm if we don't use them.

Frankly I have no strong opinion on this. I've just wanted to fix the 
broken autoloading of the drivers compiled as modules.

Best regards

-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland