Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] regulator: add 88pm88x regulators driver

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 10:49:20AM +0100, Karel Balej wrote:
> On Fri Jan 5, 2024 at 4:18 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Why are we adding an of_compatible here?  It's redundant, the MFD split
> > is a feature of Linux internals not of the hardware, and the existing
> > 88pm8xx MFD doesn't use them.

> in a feedback to my MFD series, Rob Herring pointed out that there is no
> need to have a devicetree node for a subdevice if it only contains
> "compatible" as the MFD driver can instantiate subdevices itself. I
> understood that this is what he was referring to, but now I suspect that
> it is sufficient for the mfd_cell.name to be set to the subdevice driver
> name for this - is that correct?

That's what I'd expect, yes.

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