On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
> > +   {
> > +           .name = "max14577-regulator",
> > +           .of_compatible = "maxim,max14577-regulator",
> > +   },
> 
> Why is there a compatible for this at all, would this ever appear as
> part of a different device?

For automatic assigning of it's of_node.

In previous incarnations of this set it was done manually for some reason.

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