Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] hwmon: (pmbus/lm25066) Use PMBUS_REGULATOR_ONE to declare regulator

[Guenter Roeck]

On 2/23/24 15:26, Zev Weiss wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:16:28PM PST, Zev Weiss wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 08:21:08AM PST, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > If a chip only provides a single regulator, it should be named 'vout'
> > > and not 'vout0'. Declare regulator using PMBUS_REGULATOR_ONE() to make
> > > that happen.
>
>
> > Given (AFAICT) the >lack of any combined dts & driver patches anywhere in the kernel git history I guess maybe doing both atomically in a single commit might not be considered kosher, but could it at least be included in the same patch series?
>
> Ah, except I realize now I neglected to pass '--full-diff' to 'git log' when checking that, and after fixing that I see there is in fact some precedent for commits changing device-trees and driver code together, so ideally that would be my preference here too.

That is not going to happen in the hwmon subsystem unless something slips by.
In a large project like the Linux kernel you'll find precedents for everything,
so citing one is not a valid argument.

As a general rule, I don't apply patches in .dts[i] files through the hwmon
branch at all, not even as part of a patch series. Architecture maintainers
tend to strongly oppose that idea, for the simple reason that it creates
the risk of merge conflicts and thus of bugs during commit windows.

Guenter