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

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Apr 7 02:00:47 PDT 2015


On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> 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?

It was the suggested syntax from DT binding maintainer Rob Herring in
July last year:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=140629736615939&w=2

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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