[RFC PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: mfd: x-powers,axp152: Add polyphased property

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 10:52:45PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:

> > > Add the "x-powers,polyphased" property to the binding, to describe those
> > > pairs or tuples of regulators that should work together. In the lead
> > > regulator node, the property lists the phandles of the connected
> > > regulators. Just an empty property means no poly-phasing.

> > Don't we have a coupled regulator binding already?

> That was my first thought as well.

That's something separate, that's two separate regulators that need to
be kept within a range of each other manually.

> Unlike separate regulators that are ganged together, in the AXP PMICs it
> seems that when buck outputs are ganged, only the controls for the first
> output have any actual effect. In such cases I don't know if we should
> just ignore / leave out the secondary outputs from both the description
> and the runtime state.

This is very common, I would expect any regulators that are ganged
together into a single regulator like this to simply not appear in the
DT.
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