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    regulator: deprecate regulator-compatible DT property · 13511def
    Stephen Warren authored
    When the bindings for the TPS6586x regulator were being proposed, I
    asserted that DT node naming rules for bus child nodes should also be
    applied to nodes inside the TPS6586x regulator node itself. In other
    words, that each node providing regulator init data should be named
    after the type of object it represented ("regulator") and hence that
    some other property was required to indicate which regulator the node
    described ("regulator-compatible"). In turn this led to multiple nodes
    having the same name, thus requiring node names to use a unit address
    to make them unique, thus requiring reg properties within the nodes and
    
    However, subsequent discussion indicates that the rules I was asserting
    only applies to standardized bus nodes, and within a device's own node,
    the binding can basically do anything sane that it wants.
    
    Hence, this change deprecates the register-compatible property, and
    instead uses node names to replace this functionality. This greatly
    simplifies the device tree content, making them smaller and more legible.
    
    The code is changed such that old device trees continue to work.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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