[PATCH 8/9] regulator: helper to extract regulator node based on supply name

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Fri Sep 30 06:35:50 EDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 03:04:45PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 05:56 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:09:30AM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote:

> >>And even before DT migration, we used to build statically some
> >>omap_device to represent the various processors in the system (MPU,
> >>DSP, CortexM3...).

> >Yeah, but that's very OMAP specific - we don't have that in general (in
> >fact it's the only Linux platform I'm aware of that has a device for the
> >CPU).

> But isn't this the right thing to do for everyone else too?

That doesn't really matter so long as nobody else is actually doing it;
you can't make a decision like this in an OMAP-specific fashion, you
need to make sure everyone else is on board with the decision and make
sure we've got at least at a high level way of representing the CPUs and
SoCs in the device tree that people can buy into.



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