Voltage and current regulator: usage of 'regulators' parent node in device tree

I see a lot of Device trees wrapping the regulator nodes within a parent node like this

regulators {
    compatible = "simple-bus";
    #address-cells = <1>;
    #size-cells = <0>;
    reg_p3v3: regulator@0 {
        compatible = "regulator-fixed";
        [...]
        regulator-always-on;
    };
    [...]

Contrary to that, patches exist removing the 'regulators' node, because the 'simple-bus' doesn't really exist in hardware. Unfortunately, the documentation is unclear about wrapping regulator nodes like shown above.

Should I avoid the parent 'regulators' node and why?

Is the given naming schema in fixed-regulator.yaml best practice to follow?

    reg_xyz: regulator-xyz {
      compatible = "regulator-fixed";
      regulator-name = "xyz";

Thank you for clarification.

Carsten Stelling

Hi,

Possibly, the wrong list or recipients?
Any thoughts on this topic?

Thank you for your help.

Carsten