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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: of_get_regulation_constraints: Use node name as fallback
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:28:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5240A46B.3080408@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130923101551.GY21013@sirena.org.uk>

On 09/23/2013 12:15 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:47:34PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> If the "regulator-name" property is not present use the name of the devicetree
>> node as a fallback.
>
> You're not supposed to use the node name for anything, the goal is that
> it's entirely ornamental noise.  Which is a bit annoying but there we
> are.
>

Is this documented somewhere? I'd be interested in the rationale behind this.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-22 10:47 [PATCH] regulator: of_get_regulation_constraints: Use node name as fallback Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-09-23 10:15 ` Mark Brown
2013-09-23 20:28   ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2013-09-23 23:33     ` Mark Brown

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