Re: regulator node names and unit-addresses? (Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] ARM: shmobile: kzm9d: Remove spurious regulator base addresses)

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Mark,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Mark Brown <broonie-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:02:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Simon Horman <horms-/R6kz+dDXgpPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> > What should we call the nodes?
>
>> "regulator0" and "regulator1"?
>> "regulator1v8" and "regulator3v3"?
>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt doesn't mention
>> node names or (presence/lack of) unit-adresses, but the examples do have
>> unit-addresses.
>
>> Is this another case where we don't follow the "no reg, no unit-address"
>> ePAPR rule?
>
> As far as the regulator API is concerned the node name is completly
> immaterial and all this stuff is just verbiage we're forced to include.
> As far as I can tell the requirement that node names be in the form
> "regulator" or whatever is just another thing that wasn't terribly well
> thought through in ePAPR, they were trying to do classes I think.

So perhaps we should just keep "regulator@0" and "regulator@1"?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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