Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver forMaxim 14577

[Mark Brown]

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.

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