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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