[PATCH v3 03/14] regulator: dt-bindings: max77802: Document of_compatible for regulator

Krzysztof Kozlowski k.kozlowski at samsung.com
Thu Oct 30 04:20:42 PDT 2014


Document new required property for regulator driver: of_compatible.
The property allows MFD core to bind the driver to node with regulators
and this simplifies parsing regulators init data from DTS

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
index 5aeaffc0f1f0..fa545e7d3b0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ Following properties should be present in main device node of the MFD chip.
 
 Optional node:
 - regulators : The regulators of max77802 have to be instantiated
-  under subnode named "regulators" using the following format.
+  under subnode named "regulators".
+  Required property:
+  - compatible : Must be "maxim,max77802-pmic"
+
+  Optional properties: For each regulator use following format:
 
 	regulator-name {
 		standard regulator constraints....
@@ -36,6 +40,8 @@ Example:
 		#size-cells = <0>;
 
 		regulators {
+			compatible = "maxim,max77802-pmic";
+
 			ldo11_reg: LDO11 {
 				regulator-name = "vdd_ldo11";
 				regulator-min-microvolt = <1900000>;
-- 
1.9.1




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