[PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

[Shawn Guo]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:11:55PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
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> >+       /* find device_node and attach it */
> >+       rdev->dev.of_node = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, regulator_desc->name);
> 
> so would this do a complete dt search for every regulator?

Yes, with the first param being NULL, tthe entire device tree will be
searched.

> we would also need the driver names and dt names to match for this to
> work, right?
> 
Driver name does not matter.  The key for this search to work is having
regulator's name (regulator_desc->name) match device tree node's name,
case ignored.

> The approach otherwise looks fine to me and should work for both cases
> of one device per regulator and one device for all regulators.
> 

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Regards,
Shawn