On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 04:28:49PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 12:17:24PM +0200, Mihai Sain wrote: > > Use generic names for buck regulators to avoid any confusion. > > Update the names from buck regulators in order to match > > the datasheet block diagram for the buck regulators. > I know the regulator core will create dummy regulators when they are not > provided in the devicetree, so I am not 100% on how backwards > compatibility works here. > You'll end up with a bunch of dummies and therefore the regulator-names > and constraints on the regulator will be lost, no? > Can you explain how is this backwards compatible with the old > devicetrees? It quite simply isn't backwards compatible. The original driver looks to be pretty broken but this breaks compatibility, we'd need a transition plan of some kind which probably needs some core work to cope with fallback names.
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