[PATCH RESEND 1/4] ARM: OMAP2+: AM33XX: Add tps65910 device tree data

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Wed Aug 29 04:31:31 EDT 2012


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:21:33AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:26:07PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > > > arch/arm/boot/dts/db8500.dtsi
> 
> > > I'm not actually seeing anything terribly problematic here, though the
> > > regulator-name properties should really be removed as they're fairly
> > > useless and seem to be missing the point of having the property.
> 
> > Just looking at this now. 
> 
> > The regulator-name property is used to populate constrains->name. Are
> > you sure you still want them all removed?
> 
> Yes, of course.  There's no way that a generic .dtsi used for any
> possible board could come up with a sensible value.

So how should constrains->name be populated then? Would you prefer
regulator-names moved to the .dts file(s), or something else?

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