Hi Mark,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 2016年1月29日 8:16
> To: Yang, Wenyou <[email protected]>
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <[email protected]>; Rob Herring <[email protected]>;
> Pawel Moll <[email protected]>; Ian Campbell
> <[email protected]>; Kumar Gala <[email protected]>;
> Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>; Javier Martinez Canillas
> <[email protected]>; Lee Jones <[email protected]>; Peter Korsgaard
> <[email protected]>; Ferre, Nicolas <[email protected]>; linux-arm-
> [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for
> ACT8945A
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:57:42AM +0800, Wenyou Yang wrote:
> 
> > +static const struct of_device_id act8945a_pmic_of_match[] = {
> > +   { .compatible = "active-semi,act8945a-regulator" },
> > +   { },
> > +};
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, act8945a_pmic_of_match);
> 
> This seems mostly OK but why do we have a compatible string here - shouldn't
> the MFD be able to instantiate the regulator function without needing this?

Because I got feedback from Javier for the act8945a-charger patches of this MFD 
series,
He said missing the OF match table will cause the module autoloading broken. 

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-January/398113.html

What do you think about it?


Best Regards,
Wenyou Yang

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