Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:17:06 +0200 | From | Grant Likely <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data |
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:32:19AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2011 05:28 PM, Shawn Guo wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:11:55PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote: > >[...] > >>>+ /* find device_node and attach it */ > >>>+ rdev->dev.of_node = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, regulator_desc->name); > >> > >>so would this do a complete dt search for every regulator? > > > >Yes, with the first param being NULL, tthe entire device tree will be > >searched. > > > >>we would also need the driver names and dt names to match for this to > >>work, right? > >> > >Driver name does not matter. The key for this search to work is having > >regulator's name (regulator_desc->name) match device tree node's name, > >case ignored. > > Mark, whats your take on this? I am somehow not quite sure if we should > have this limitation put in to match DT node names with whats in the > driver structs (regulator_desc).
This looks wrong to me. Matching based on node /name/, particularly when searching the entire tree, will cause problems.
g.
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