On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 04:13:23PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > > The usual thing to do is of_get_child_by_name() on the parent to get the > > container to search in. > What do you mean when you say 'usual thing'? Only the max8998 does > this currently. IMHO the better way to do it for MFD devices is > provide a compatible string and let the framework does the rest for > you. No, as3722, Palmas and three of the TPS chips do the same thing. If it were a purely Linux-internal thing I'd probably agree with you but as it is we'd just be adding compatible strings in everyone's DTs to save one line of code in the kernel.
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