Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] ARM: tegra: harmony: Initialize PCIe from DT

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 06/11/2012 11:48 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> * Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 06/11/2012 09:05 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>> With the device tree support in place, probe the PCIe
>>> controller from the device tree and remove the corresponding
>>> workaround in the board file.
>> 
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra-harmony.dts
>>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra-harmony.dts
>> 
>>> +	pci_vdd_reg: fixedregulator@0 {
>> 
>> I think that'd usually just be "regulator@0".
>> 
>> If you need the "@0" part to differentiate between multiple
>> regulators, the node needs a reg property too:
>> 
>> reg = <0 0>;
>> 
>> although then I wonder about putting the regulator under the root
>> node, since the address wouldn't really make sense...
> 
> Perhaps we should add a new "regulators" node under the root node
> to collect this kind of regulators that don't fit anywhere else.
> Looking at the code, something like this should work:
> 
> / { ...
> 
> regulators { compatible = "simple-bus"; #address-cells = <1>; 
> #size-cells = <0>;
> 
> pci_vdd_reg: regulator@0 { reg = <0>; }; }; };

That seems like a good idea, and there's certainly precedent for doing
exactly that in other ARM .dts files already.

To maintain .dts alphabetical sorting of non-addressed nodes, this new
node should slot in just before the sound node, near the end of the file.