Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] regulator: tps65912: Add regulator driver for the TPS65912 PMIC

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:40:38PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 12:44 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >There's also the third option where we don't have any compatible strings
> >in the subnodes at all.

> Ok, two, but would you really want to go that way? Matching by node name costs
> us all of the flexibility of DT sub-device selection. Still don't see an upside
> as we would now be locked to node names instead of compatible strings to declare
> component type compatibility (what they are for).

Yes, we should go that way.  No, there is nothing meaningful being lost
- the fact that there is zero paramterisation in the bindings and each
subfunction has the full device name as a compatible string ought to be
a big red flag here.

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