On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:13:14AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:46:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > As well as being able to refer to the object from within the device tree > > we also need to be able to tell what the object represents - we have a > > bunch of regulators in an array under a node for a PMIC and we want to > > know which regulator on the physical device each array entry corresponds > > to. Previously this was being done by parsing the phandle name but that > > means we can't have more than one device with the same set of names. > I thought the reason was that matching the node names up with the > regulator names was considered bad practice. As Stephen already noticed, > the matching is done by node name, not phandle. Correct me if I'm wrong, > but you can have more than one device with the children have the same > names. We're talking about consumers here, not the regulator driver finding its own regulators.
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