On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski 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.
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