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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: atull <atull@opensource.altera.com>,
	jdelvare@suse.de, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, delicious.quinoa@gmail.com,
	dinguyen@opensource.altera.com, yvanderv@opensource.altera.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] pmbus: ltc2978: add regulator support
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:55:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54234BF2.6040404@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140924223322.GL16977@sirena.org.uk>

On 09/24/2014 03:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 02:13:32PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:48:40PM -0500, atull wrote:
>
>>>> regulator.47/name:vout_en0
>
>>> These are just default names, but I think I could make the name better.
>>> How about <part #>-<i2c address>-vout<#> such as "ltc2978-5c-vout0"
>
>> Problem with that is that i2c bus numbers are not static, which would
>> make it quite difficult to describe the regulator in devicetree data.
>
>> Any idea what other regulators do in such situations ?
>
> What's there is correct (modulo the _en), the names are local to the
> chip.  If the user actually cares they will be providing the name of the
> supply on the board anyway.
>

Great, thanks a lot.

Guenter


      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 17:57 [PATCH v3 0/3] regulator support for pmbus and ltc2978 atull
2014-09-24 17:57 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] pmbus: core: add helpers for byte write and read modify write atull
2014-09-24 17:57 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] pmbus: add regulator support atull
2014-09-24 19:41   ` Dinh Nguyen
2014-09-24 21:08     ` atull
2014-09-24 19:58   ` Guenter Roeck
2014-09-24 21:06     ` atull
2014-09-24 21:22       ` Guenter Roeck
2014-09-24 17:57 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] pmbus: ltc2978: " atull
2014-09-24 20:19   ` Guenter Roeck
2014-09-24 20:48     ` atull
2014-09-24 21:13       ` Guenter Roeck
2014-09-24 22:33         ` Mark Brown
2014-09-24 22:55           ` Guenter Roeck [this message]

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