Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] device property: Add fwnode_get_next_parent()

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:17:49AM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:19:57PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> ...
> > > > I think I agree with Rob's prior comments about making an ops struct for DT
> > > > vs ACPI.  Out of the 16 patches, 2/16, 3/16, 5/16 (multiple times), and this
> > > > patch all end up using the same construct.  Maybe it needs to be a separate
> > > > refactoring effort, but if it's happening this often just in this patch set,
> > > > it seems like it's getting time to clean things up.
> > > 
> > > As long as there are two cases only (ACPI vs DT), an ops struct wouldn't
> > > really make things simpler and it would make the code more difficult to
> > > follow.
> > > 
> > > But we do have a third case (static or built-in properties) and it doesn't
> > > seem to be covered at all.
> > 
> > That said the ops struct could be introduced on top of this series just fine.
> > It even might be cleaner to do it this way, so I'm not asking for a redesign
> > here.
> > 
> > I'd like the built-in properties to be covered too, however.
> 
> That sounds good to me. 

After looking at the implementation, the fwnode interface is rather complete
for property sets --- graphs are inherently cross-device concepts and
property sets don't really lend themselves to that. I think it'd be good to
have at least a use case for that before implementing it based on a thought
that it might be needed for something.

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus
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