Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] hwmon: ltc2978: device tree bindings documentation

Guenter Roeck
2014-10-05T00:14:13Z

On 10/04/2014 02:53 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 04:23:15PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 10/03/2014 04:13 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> Nope, nothing to do with regulator that I'm aware of and I've not seen
>>> any examples (but I don't tend to review users too often).
>
>> Many examples, really. Just picking one.
>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/tps6507x.txt
>
> OK, that's not an actual DTS... I'm not seeing anything in the code.
>
>> regulators {
>> #address-cells = <1>;
>> #size-cells = <0>;
>> ...
>
>> This also uses the reg property for the regulator index
>> (without explaining it further). Seems to be pretty common.
>
> If it's doing that it's nothing to do with the regulator API.
>
Since the code does not use those values either, presumably they don't have
to be specified in the first place. I'll test that with a real system
next week.

Guenter