Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: drm/bridge: adv7511: Add regulator bindings

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On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 02:46:55PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 Dec 2016 10:05:17 Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 11:16:22PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> > > This has been discussed previously, and Rob agreed that if the datasheet
> > > recommends to power all supplies from the same regulator we can take that
> > > as a good hint that a single supply should be enough. In the very

> > No, don't do this - introducing special snowflake bindings just makes
> > things more complex at the system level and tells everyone else that
> > they too can have special snowflake bindings.  Someone should be able to
> > connect up the regulators based purely on a schematic.  Just describe
> > the hardware, it's just one extra line in the DT per regulator.

> There are power supply pin that have different names but documented as having 
> to be connected to the same supply. I really see no point in having multiple 
> regulators for them.

The tiny amount of extra typing involved doesn't seem like much of a
cost for keeping things consistent with every other regulator user out
there.

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