[PATCH 1/5] MFD/OF: document MFD devices and handle simple-mfd

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Fri Apr 3 11:34:56 PDT 2015


Hi,

I understand this is bikeshedding to some extent, but I'd also like to
avoid needless variation in binding formats:

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:

> +
> +foo at 1000 {
> +               compatible = "syscon", "simple-mfd";
> +               reg = <0x010000 0x1000>;
> +
> +               led at 08.0 {

This doesn't seem to be a typo, you're using a period in the unit
address. I've never seen that done before, usually commas are used
instead.

Was there a reason for going with period?


-Olof



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