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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for
 Maxim 14577
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:23:58 +0000
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>=20
> > +	{
> > +		.name =3D "max14577-regulator",
> > +		.of_compatible =3D "maxim,max14577-regulator",
> > +	},
>=20
> Why is there a compatible for this at all, would this ever appear as
> part of a different device?

=46or automatic assigning of it's of_node.

In previous incarnations of this set it was done manually for some reas=
on.

--=20
Lee Jones
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