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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: tps65086: Add DT bindings for the
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:18:32 +0100
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:46:33AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>=20
> > > I could change the core to be "tps65086-pmic", then call the regu=
lator
> > > driver "tps65086-regulator" if this works for you, this seems to =
be the
> > > way new drivers name the regulator driver (max77843.c).
>=20
> > Yes, this is what I was thinking of.
>=20
> > ti,tps65086 is uninformative/undescriptive and tells me nothing.
>=20
> It is however the normal way we write compatible strings - the class
> information would normaly go in the node name (ie, i2c@7000c000 or
> whatever).

I didn't say it hasn't been done before, just that I didn't like it
for the aforementioned reasons.  I can also find 1000's of compatible
strings which do append "-<device_type>", so it's not exactly an
unheard of practice.

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