Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:42:21 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for Maxim 14577 |
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:23:58PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown 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.
The usual thing to do is of_get_child_by_name() on the parent to get the container to search in. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |