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From: blogic@openwrt.org (John Crispin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2 2/2] regulator: mt6323: Add support for MT6323 regulator
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:13:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A61F78.6070703@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160125123538.GO6588@sirena.org.uk>



On 25/01/2016 13:35, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:19:46PM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>> On 25/01/2016 13:11, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
>>> You don't have a .of_match table but according the DT bindings, the
>>> compatible string "mediatek,mt6323-regulator" should be used so there
>>> should be a OF match table or the vendor prefix of the compatible
>>> string won't be used for matching (i.e: fallbacks to the driver .name
>>> for match).
> 
>> the driver is probed via drivers/mfd/mt6397-core.c and does not require
>> the OF match table. It loads fine just like the mt6397 driver.
> 
> That's fine but you shouldn't have the compatible string in your binding
> document since it's not actually used or needed.
> 
Hi,

correct me if i am wrong but if we remove the compatible string from the
binding document, then we will also have to remove it from the dts and
then the kernel won't be able to match the node to the driver and thus
the regulator phandle derefs will fail.

	John

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25 10:40 [PATCH V2 1/2] dt-bindings: regulator: Add document for MT6323 regulator John Crispin
2016-01-25 10:40 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] regulator: mt6323: Add support " John Crispin
2016-01-25 12:11   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-01-25 12:19     ` John Crispin
2016-01-25 12:30       ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-01-25 12:35       ` Mark Brown
2016-01-25 13:13         ` John Crispin [this message]
2016-01-25 13:19           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-01-25 13:25             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-01-25 13:46               ` John Crispin
2016-01-25 14:01                 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-01-25 14:02                   ` John Crispin
2016-01-25 11:37 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] dt-bindings: regulator: Add document " Mark Brown
2016-01-25 12:05   ` John Crispin

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