Re: [RFC PATCH 09/11] DT: regulator: Helper to extract regulator node based on supply name

Rajendra Nayak
2011-09-16T07:19:48Z

On Friday 16 September 2011 04:33 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>
>> We've got two competing approaches here. For reg and interrupts, the
>> proposal on the table that we talked about at LPC is to do reg-names
>> and interrupts-names so as to preserve the existing semantics of the
>> reg and interrupts properties. For gpios we're using the binding
>> "<name>-gpios" for named gpio references. There isn't the same
>> pressure to preserve existing bindings in that case. I'm okay with
>> either approach, providing that "-regulator" is encoded into the name.
>
> I think I prefer the latter but I'm probably not too fussed.
>
> I'd rather use something like -supply for these just on the basis that
> you don't always connect things to regulators (for example, speaker
> supplies are generally attached direct to the battery).

Ok, I'll go with <name>-supply then.