Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] regulator: tps65912: Add regulator driver for the TPS65912 PMIC

["Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>]

On 10/25/2015 07:43 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 03:45:43PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 10/24/2015 05:14 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> Tbe binding document is buggy and doesn't reflect the code, there's no
>>> compatible string in the driver.
>
>> Sure there is:
>
>> drivers/mfd/mt6397-core.c:48:
>> .of_compatible = "mediatek,mt6397-regulator",
>
> This is in the MFD, this is not used in actual systems.
>

Not sure what you mean by "actual systems", it looks like these
use it?:

arch/arm/boot/dts/mt8135-evbp1.dts
arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173-evb.dts

>> Then mfd_add_devices uses this to find the regulator node and fill
>> in .of_node, then in the regulator driver:
>
>> drivers/regulator/mt6397-regulator.c:48:
>> .of_match = of_match_ptr(match),
>
>> which uses your helper to match the nodes in the filled in .of_node.
>
> This is in a regulator definition, it is using the regulator framework
> support for parsing DT which must be used by modern drivers.  It is not
> part of how the Linux driver model device is instantiated, that is done
> using the struct platform_driver which is what we are talking about
> here.
>

I understand this, I thought we are talking about compatible strings in
the regulator sub-node, not how the core instantiates the sub-driver.

> Please stop this, it is getting very tiresome.
>

Sorry about that, I'm really not trying to prolong this, but I don't know
what you want. New multifunction devices have compatible strings in their
DT sub-nodes, the framework even helps support this (.of_compatible in
struct mfd_cell), I'm not doing anything new here.