[PATCH 1/5] regulator: dt-bindings: Unify compatible

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed May 8 05:10:02 PDT 2024


On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 04:11:12PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 05:51:54PM +0530, Neha Malcom Francis wrote:
> > TPS62870/1/2/3 devices have different output currents (6A/9A/12A/15A) of
> > the TPS6287x family. The I2C addresses are the same between them. There
> > is no need for different compatibles for each for these devices so drop
> > them and add a unified "ti,tps6287x" compatible.

> And s/w will never need to know what the max output current is?

Yes, this seems destructive of information for no gain - if anything it
makes things harder to use since you can't just use the part number and
instead have to know about the wildcard.
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