[PATCH V2 0/3] regulator: dt: add policy to match regulator with prop "regulator-compatible"

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Jun 20 18:59:32 EST 2012


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan at nvidia.com> wrote:

> add policy to match regulator with the property of "regulator-compatible" of each
> child regulator node with their hardware counterparts name.
> Modify documentation as well to reflect this change and dts files.
>
> Changes from V1:
> - Modify the existing of_regulator_match() to use the property
>  "regulator-compatible" of each child node of regulator for
>   matching rather than child node name.
> - Documentation change to reflect this policy who are using the
>  of_regulator_match().
> - Modify the dts file to absorb this policy.

If I had today deployed the device trees generated prior to this patch,
and try to boot kernels after this patch with the same device tree,
would they still work as expected?

I don't know it it's an issue right now, but at some point we need to
realize that people will expect old device trees to work on newer
kernels.

Yours,
Linus Walleij


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