Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for "gpio" and "gpios" binding

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:05 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To provide backward compatibility for boards that use deprecated DT
> bindings, we need to add fw_devlink support for "gpio" and "gpios".

You do some more stuff in the patch so describe that too.
Especially the check for hogs and #gpio-cells.
Describe why you do that. Maybe even with a comment in
the code because I don't think everyone will understand.

> +       if (strcmp(prop_name, "gpio") && strcmp(prop_name, "gpios"))
> +               return NULL;

This part is easy to understand.

> +       if (of_find_property(np, "gpio-hog", NULL))
> +               return NULL;
> +
> +       if (of_parse_phandle_with_args(np, prop_name, "#gpio-cells", index,
> +                                      &sup_args))
> +               return NULL;

This part is hard to understand. Insert comments and tell the reader
of the code what is going on and why.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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