This series is a result of the discussion in [1]. Rob suggested to convert the index parameter to unsigned int and drop the check for negative values and make them static inline. It will also introduce a new variant of the function, although it is unused for now. They will be needed when nvmem phandles are modified to take additional arguments and need to retain backwards compatibility with older device trees. Finally, define of_property_read_u{8,16,32,64}_array() unconditionally, these are the last ones, which were defined static inline and had an empty stub if CONFIG_OF wasn't set. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/20211228142549.1275412-1-michael@xxxxxxxx/ Michael Walle (5): of: base: convert index to unsigned for of_parse_phandle() of: base: make small of_parse_phandle() variants static inline of: base: add of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args() of: property: define of_property_read_u{8,16,32,64}_array() unconditionally of: property: use unsigned index for of_link_property() drivers/of/base.c | 137 +------------ drivers/of/property.c | 27 ++- include/linux/of.h | 446 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 3 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-) -- 2.30.2