Re: [PATCH] regulator: Support different config and dev of_nodes in regulator_register

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 04:52:40PM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Thu 05 Feb 16:32 PST 2015, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 02:08:54PM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:

> > > However this only works for the non-supply regulator properties - and
> > > this is where Tim's patch is trying to sort out.

> > No, this works completely fine for supply properties - to repeat what I
> > said in reply to the original patch the supply is a supply to the chip
> > not to an individual IP on the chip.

> It does make some sense to consider the vbus-supply being connected to
> the block, rather than directly to the vbus-switch. So it would work for
> Tim's use case.

Like I say if we do that then we don't have consistency in how we map a
schematic into a DT binding - you have to dig into the binding of each
device and figure out if the supply is viewed as being for blocks or for
the chip as a whole and we've got the potential for problems in the
binding if we figure out that a supply is actually used by other blocks
later on and don't want to break existing DTs.

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