Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] dt-bindings: regulator: add support for MT6392

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Oct 26 2020 - 13:24:39 EST


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:18:35PM +0100, Fabien Parent wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 1:13 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:03:03PM +0200, Fabien Parent wrote:

> > > +Required properties:
> > > +- compatible: "mediatek,mt6392-regulator"

> > This is no longer used by the driver, should be unneeded and therefore
> > should be removed.

> It is not used by the driver but it will be used by the MFD driver [0]
> like this:
> static const struct mfd_cell mt6392_devs[] = {
> {
> [snip]
> }, {
> [snip]
> }, {
> .name = "mt6392-regulator",
> .of_compatible = "mediatek,mt6392-regulator"

This is still unneeded, it's just a reflection of Linux implementation
details and should be removed. The MFD can just register the child
without supplying a compatible and things will continue to work just as
well.

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