Re: [PATCH 7/7] regulator: mcp16502: Update the names from buck regulators

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 04:28:49PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 12:17:24PM +0200, Mihai Sain wrote:

> > Use generic names for buck regulators to avoid any confusion.
> > Update the names from buck regulators in order to match
> > the datasheet block diagram for the buck regulators.

> I know the regulator core will create dummy regulators when they are not
> provided in the devicetree, so I am not 100% on how backwards
> compatibility works here.
> You'll end up with a bunch of dummies and therefore the regulator-names
> and constraints on the regulator will be lost, no?
> Can you explain how is this backwards compatible with the old
> devicetrees?

It quite simply isn't backwards compatible.  The original driver looks
to be pretty broken but this breaks compatibility, we'd need a
transition plan of some kind which probably needs some core work to cope
with fallback names.

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