On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 05:38:44PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:

Please fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs at something
substantially less than 80 columns.  Doing this makes your messages much
easier to read and reply to.

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 03:04:48PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:

> > > In this case the above matching mechanism based on the simple (common) 
> > > name
> > > will fail and the only viable alternative would be to properly define the
> > > deprecrated 'regulator-compatible' property equal to the full name
> > > <common-name>@<unit>.

> > This seems like a massive jump.  You appear to be saying that the reg
> > property is unusable which doesn't seem right to me?

> The 'issue' I observed while working on another series was that with the
> following example DT:

...

> the regulator framework standard initialization routines were able to match 
> univocally the
> first two regulators above (and parse autonomously the constraints without me 
> explicitly
> calling of_get_regulator_init_data() as in a previous version of the series), 
> but got fooled

My point is that your jump to "this is the only possible approach" seems
to suggest we can't involve the reg property in the matching which like
I say doesn't seem right.

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