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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:23:58 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for
 Maxim 14577
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
> > +	{
> > +		.name = "max14577-regulator",
> > +		.of_compatible = "maxim,max14577-regulator",
> > +	},
> 
> Why is there a compatible for this at all, would this ever appear as
> part of a different device?

For automatic assigning of it's of_node.

In previous incarnations of this set it was done manually for some reason.

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