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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