Re: [PATCH 14/15] drivers/regulators: Enable the ab8500 for Device Tree

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 02:36:46PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Right, which is what the driver has done since 79568b9412 "regulator:
initialization for ab8500 regulators" with your ack, so we decided not
to change that and simply move the init data from platform code
to the device tree.

Yes, I've never seen the arch/arm bit of it before to see what the magic
writes actually do before - I did review the original code which just
used the regulator API normally but not this magic number stuff which
was just done in the platform.  The magic numbers might be OK for things
where it's device specific enough but the comments here make it clear
that some of the magic number setup is duplicating framework features.